Etched and engraved print from a series commissioned by Parliament depicting the notions of industry and idleness. The scene is the public execution at the so-called Tyburn Tree, teeming with crowds of people, with men on horseback holding spears along the left hand side. There are a range of facial expressions on the faces of the people in the foreground, including two young boys laughing and pointing at a man whose legs are submerged in the mud, a man on crutches straining to see above the crowd, a man holding a puppy by its tail and a group of outraged looking fruit sellers in the right foreground. The central figure, with her back turned on the scene, has a look of horror on her face, clasping a message on a sheet of paper and holding a baby. There is a cart carrying a coffin alongside women reading bibles, one of whom proselytises to the crowd. Raked seating flanks the right hand side of the scene close to the unusual triangular structure serving as the famous gallows. At the top of the scene is lettered the title, with a proverb from the bible inscribed beneath, alongside two hanging skeletons on either side of the picture.