Updated 10 July 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Four Stages of Cruelty>: Reward of Cruelty
| Date | 1750/51 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Size（cm） | 38.3 x 31.7 |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed in bottom margin: Behold the Villain's dire disgrace! / Not Death itself can end. / He finds no peaceful Burial-Place; / His breathless Corse, no friend. / Torn from the Root, that wicked Tongue, / Witch daily swore and curst! / Those Eyeballs, from their Sockets wrung, / That glow'd with lawless Lust ! / His Heart, expos'd to prying Eyes, To Pity has no Claim: / But, dreadful! from his Bones shall rise, / His Monument of Shame. |
| Standard ref. | Paulson 190 (3/4) |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1994-0015 |
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. 50-4, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1965
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 1st complete ed, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1965, cat. no. 204, repr.
- 1968
- Burke, Joseph; Caldwell, Colin. Hogarth: The Complete Engravings. London, Thames and Hudson, 1968, pl. 227.
- 1981
- Mori, Yoko. Hogarth no Dohanga: Eikoku no seso to fushi. Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1981 (Sosho bijutsu no izumi, vol. 48), fig. 74.(in Japanese)
- 1981
- 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. 17
- 1989
- Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. 3rd. rev. ed., New Haven/London, 1989 , cat. no. 190.
- 1991
- Engraved Works by William Hogarth (exh. cat.). 25 November - 7 December 1991. Tokyo, ARCADIA, 1991, p. 59, cat. no. 36
- 1996
- Hogarth and the Shows of London (exh. cat.). Stevens, Andrew. Madison, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996, cat. no. 49.
- 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, 246, cat. no. 50-4, col. repr.