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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 1, 1751.
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 72++ Box 315
- Collection Title:
- Plate 79. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 55. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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 "James Field" 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 engraved above image., State, publisher, and series title from Paulson., Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., "Price 1s. 6d"--Left corner, below design., and Lacks stamp '6d' following 'Price 1s."
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Anatomy, Criminals, Dogs, Dissections, Medical education, Rake's progress, Physicians, and Skeletons
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The reward of cruelty [graphic]