Updated 10 July 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Four Stages of Cruelty>: Second Stage of Cruelty
| Date | 1750/51 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Size（cm） | 38.4 x 31.9 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: The generous Steed in hoary Age / Subdu'd by Labour lies; / And mourns a cruel Master's rage, / While Nathre Strength denies. / The tender Lamb o'er drove and faing, Admist expiring Throws; / Bleats forth it's innocent complaint / And dies beneath the Blows. / Inhuman Wretch! say whence proceeds / This coward Cruelty? / What Int'rest springs from barb'rous deeds? / What Joy from Misery? |
| Standard ref. | Paulson 188 (1/2) |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1994-0013 |
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. 50-2, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1965
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 1st complete ed, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1965, cat. no. 202, repr.
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 225.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 72.(in Japanese)
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989, cat. no. 188.
- 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. 50-2, col. repr.