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The First Stage of Cruelty

Maker

(artist)
1697-1764

(engraver)
1697-1764

Title

The First Stage of Cruelty

Date of Production

1751

Medium

Engraving and etching

Dimensions

Height: 38.4 cm
Width: 31.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2000

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Captured on Paper, Animals in the Prints and Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2002-11/08/2002

William Hogarth - Printmaker, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 23/02/2001-13/05/2001

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper margin & recto : FIRST STAGE OF CRUELTY //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : While various Scenes of sportive Woe // The Infant race employ // And tortur'd Victims bleeding shew // The Tyrant in the Boy // Behold ! a Youth of gentler Heart. // To spare the Creature's pain // O take, he cries - take all my Tart. // But Tears and Tart are vain. // Learn from this fair Example - You // Whom savage sports delight. // How Cruelty disgusts the view // While Pity charms the sight. // Design'd by W. Hogarth Published according to Act of Parliament Feb.1.1751. Price 1.s //

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