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Mid. 19th century engraving " Industry and Idleness " Plate 11" The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn " by E. Smith , from the original design by William Hogarth. William Hogarth ( 1697-1764 ), English painter and printmaker is credited for pioneering the western sequential art. His work was so influential that satirical political illustrations in similar style were referred to as " hogarthian ".