The Reward of Cruelty, number four from the series The Four Stages of Cruelty
William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764
1751
Etching on paper
Image: 13 15/16 × 11 3/4 in. (35.4 × 29.8 cm)
Plate: 15 1/4 × 12 9/16 in. (38.8 × 31.9 cm)
Sheet: 19 × 15 7/16 in. (48.2 × 39.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
2007.62.4
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right margin: Design'd by W. Hogarth.; dated, in plate, lower right center margin: Published according to Act of Parliament Feb.1.1751.; titled, in plate, upper center margin: THE REWARD OF CRUELTY.; inscribed, in plate, upper left: JAMES FIELD. [above skeleton]; inscribed, in plate, upper right: MACLEANE [above skeleton]; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Price 1s. [s is superscript] 4 / 6; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Behold the Villain's dire disgrace! / Not Death itself can end. / He finds no peaceful Burial Place; / His breathless Corse, no friend.; inscribed, in plate, lower center margin: Torn from the Root, that wicked Tongue, / Which daily swore and curst! / Those Eyeballs, from their Sockets wrung, / That glow'd with lawless Lust!; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: His Heart, expos'd to prying Eyes, / To Pity has no Claim: / But, dreadful! from his Bones shall rise, / His Monument of Shame.; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower right: P. 110 3(ti [illegible])/(4) / [illegible] / [illegible] / 1165. D [circumscribed within circle] MW
Course History
ANTH 7, The Values of Medicine, Sienna Craig, Winter 2013
REL 37, Animal Rights in Religion, Catherine Randall, Winter 2013
ANTH 7, The Values of Medicine, Sienna Craig, Winter 2013
ENGL 20, Age of Satire, Alysia Garrison, Winter 2014
REL 37, Animal Rights in Religion, Catherine Randall, Winter 2014
COLT 49, Beasts on the Page, Paul Carranza, Spring 2014
Provenance
Andrew Edmunds Prints & Drawings, London, England; sold to present collection, 2007.
Catalogue Raisonne
Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. London: Yale University Press, 1965, no. 190 iii/iv.
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