[The reward of cruelty] [graphic].

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Title: [The reward of cruelty] [graphic].
Creator: Bell, John, active 1721-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1 February 1751]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians
Description: Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
State, publisher, and series title from Paulson.
Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Anatomical Theatres -- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756).
1 print : woodcut ; sheet 458 x 383 mm.
Printed on wove paper. Perhaps an impression published by Boydell after Mrs. Hogarth's death in 1789; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.171.
Provenance: Gift of Dr. John F. Fulton.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 47.8 x 41 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1751
Woodcuts England London 1751
Material: woodcut ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Anatomy
Criminals
Dogs
Dissections
Medical education
Rake's progress
Physicians
Skeletons
Subjects: Anatomy
Criminals
Dogs
Dissections
Medical education
Rake's progress
Physicians
Skeletons
England > 1751
England > London > 1751
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership

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