Title

'The Reward of Cruelty', plate IV from The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1751. Artist: Anon

Caption

'The Reward of Cruelty', plate IV from The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1751. Tom Nero, having been hanged for murder is undergoing dissection theatre. The dissecting theatre contains details resembling the Cutlerian theatre of the Royal College of Physicians and that of the Barber Surgeons' Hall.

Date

1751

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19A75_430

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (4,6Mb) / 12,6in x 15,4in / 3786 x 4607 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal people male interior indoors man men medicine surgeon education human body body audience dog science law trade guy surgery crime anatomy skull KILLER organ death cruelty century reward inside skeleton criminal concept punishment guild B&W corpse pathology MONOCHROME murderer metaphor dissection intestine black & white black and white B W autopsy guts Educational Institution 18th century Eighteenth Century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Barber Surgeons' Hall Barbers' Company crime doesn't pay dog's dinner Livery Company one in the eye post mortem Royal College of Physicians the body what a carve-up satire engraving Anon Anonymous William Hogarth;Hogarth William;W Hogarth