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William Hogarth

The Reward of Cruelty, 1751

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series Title

The Four Stages of Cruelty

Medium

etching and engraving

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 38.6 × 31.8 cm (15 3/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
mount: 62.7 × 45.1 cm (24 11/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Paulson 1965, no. 190

Accession Number

1944.5.39

Artists / Makers

William Hogarth (artist) English, 1697 - 1764

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Exhibition History

1967: William Hogarth, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1967.

Bibliography

1965: Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. Rev. ed., 1970.

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