The reward of cruelty [graphic] / design'd by W. Hogarth.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 3].
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751. - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.9 x 31.8 cm, on sheet 61.1 x 47.1 cm
- Notes:
- Title engraved above image.
State, publisher, and series title from Paulson.
Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty.
"Price 1s. 6d"--Left corner, below design. - Abstract:
- Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "James Field" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians.
- Variant Titles:
- Four stages of cruelty.
- Topics:
- Anatomy.
Criminals.
Dissections.
Dogs.
Medical education.
Parables.
Physicians.
Skeletons. - Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Sotheby, Frederick Edward,--1837-1909--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1751.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1751. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird
54K(a)
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Hogarth 751.02.01.06.3+ Box 200
Kinnaird 54K(a) Box 215
Sotheby 72++ Box 315 - Orbis Record:
- 9884905
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr31085
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3166
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 190 - OID:
- 11047517
- PID:
- digcoll:553538