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First Stage of Cruelty
First Stage of Cruelty
Public domain: Image courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

First Stage of Cruelty

Artist/Culture (British, 1697–1764)
Date1751
Mediumetching and engraving on cream wove paper
Dimensionsplate: 38.5 x 32.3 cm
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Richard Ward Greene
Object number1913.95.96
Descriptionfrom John Nichols, ed., The works of William Hogarth: from the original plates restored by James Heath: with the addition of many subjects not before collected, to which is prefixed a biographical essay on the genius and productions of Hogarth, and explanations of the subjects of the plates, Printed for Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1821-22; the volume disbound in WAM collection.

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