William Hogarth

Cruelty in Perfection (The Four Stages of Cruelty)

February 1, 1751

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Etching and engraving; only state

Dimensions

sheet: 12 7/16 x 12 1/2 in. (31.6 x 31.8 cm)

Collection no.

32.35(120)

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

William Hogarth. Cruelty in Perfection (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.