William Hogarth

The Second Stage of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty)

February 1, 1751

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Etching and engraving; first state of two

Dimensions

sheet: 14 15/16 x 12 5/8 in. (37.9 x 32 cm)

Collection no.

32.35(119)

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

William Hogarth. The Second Stage of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty). William Hogarth; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.