The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1751
- Dimensions
- plate: 15 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (38.8 x 32 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- William Hogarth
Artist
Painting
William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. 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. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".
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Record
Verified by Watts Index- Artist
- William Hogarth
- Year
- 1751
- Dimensions
- plate: 15 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (38.8 x 32 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1751-T007721
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified