Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Four Stages of Cruelty>: Cruelty in Perfection
| Date | 1750/51 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Size（cm） | 38.7 x 31.9 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: To lawless Love when once betray'd, / Soon Crime to Crime succeeds: / At length beguil'd to Theft, the Maid / By her Beguiler bleeds. / Yet learn, seducing Man! nor Night, / With all its sable Cloud, / Can screen the guilty Deed from Sight; / Foul Murder cries aloud. / The gaping Wounds, and bloodstain'd Steel, / Now shock his trembling Soul: / But Oh! what Pangs his Breast must feel, When Death his Knell shal toll. |
| Standard ref. | Paulson 189 (1/1) |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1994-0014 |
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. 50-3, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 226.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 73.(in Japanese)
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 189.
- 1991
- Engraved Works by William Hogarth (exh. cat.). 25 November - 7 December 1991. Tokyo, ARCADIA, 1991, p. 59, 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. 128, 245, cat. no. 50-3, col. repr.