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- Creator:
- Bell, John, active 1721-1780, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1751]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 751.02.01.06++ Box 305
- 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 "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., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dissection -- Anatomical Theatres -- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- Company of Surgeons -- Surgeon's Hall -- Freke, John (1688-1756).
- 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].