Updated 22 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Four Stages of Cruelty>: First Stage of Cruelty
| Date | 1750/51 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Size（cm） | 35.4 x 32.1 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: Whild various Scenes of sportive Woe / The Infant Race employ, / And tortur'd Victims bleeding shew / The Tyrant in the Boy. / Behold! a Youth of gentler Heart, / To spare the Creature's pain / O take, he cries - take all my Tart, / But Tears and Tart are vain. / Learn from this fair Example - You / Whom savage Sports delight, / How Cruelty disgusts the view / While Pity charms the sight. |
| Standard ref. | Paulson 187 (1/2) |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1994-0012 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 1995.
Exhibition History
- 2017
- Fear in Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 July 2017 - 18 September 2017, The Ueno Royal Museum, 7 October-17 December 2017, cat. no. 50-1, col. repr.
- 2021
- National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_59 | T2_62
Bibliography
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 224.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 71.(in Japanese)
- 1987
- The Exhibition of British Caricature from Hogarth to Hockney (exh cat.). 24 October - 13 December 1987. Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1987, cat. no. 16
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 187.
- 1991
- Engraved Works by William Hogarth (exh. cat.). 25 November - 7 December 1991. Tokyo, ARCADIA, 1991, p. 58, cat. no. 36
- 1997
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 29-30 (April 1994-March 1996), 1997, List of New Acquisitions. p. 37.
- 2017
- Fear in painting (exh. cat.). Nakano, Kyoko. et al. [Tokyo], Sankei Shimbn, 2017, pp. 127, 245, cat. no. 50-1, col. repr.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 95, 181, cat. no. Y2_59 | T2_62, col. repr.