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The First Stage of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty) Wall Art
ART BY: William Hogarth
The First Stage of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty) Wall Art
ART BY: William Hogarth
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The First Stage of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty) is an etching and engraving; first state of two by William Hogarth (1697–1764), dated 1751. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 3078 × 3658 px (4.8 MB). It is filed under Prints and Rococo, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 742 works by William Hogarth, a British artist.
William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by William Hogarth →
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