Cruelty in Perfection
Artist
William Hogarth
English, 1697 - 1764
DateFeb. 1, 1751
Mediumengraving
DimensionsImage: 13 7/8 × 11 5/8 in. (35.2 × 29.5 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number1972.24.5C
DescriptionThird in the series The Four Stages of Cruelty; a young woman, quite pregnant, lies murdered in a church yard; the murderer is Thos. Nero, who has been apprehended; a letter explains the situation: the girl was robbing her mistress for Nero; a verse beneathOn View
Not on viewCollections
[not after 1918].
1550-1306 BC
