William Hogarth

The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty)

February 1, 1751

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Etching and engraving; third state of three

Dimensions

plate: 15 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (38.8 x 32 cm) sheet: 15 3/4 x 13 1/16 in. (40 x 33.2 cm)

Collection no.

91.1.139

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

William Hogarth. The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty). William Hogarth; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.