Art, literature & history
The Reward of Cruelty
1751
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate): 38.6 × 31.8 cm (15 3/16 × 12 1/2 in.) mount: 62.7 × 45.1 cm (24 11/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1944.5.39
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Hogarth. The Reward of Cruelty. William Hogarth; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hogarth,_The_Reward_of_Cruelty,_1751,_NGA_30385.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Reward of Cruelty — William Hogarth. 1751.
Medium: etching and engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate): 38.6 × 31.8 cm (15 3/16 × 12 1/2 in.) mount: 62.7 × 45.1 cm (24 11/16 × 17 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1944.5.39. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.