Cruelty in Perfection  1751

Medium: [br]Etching and engraving This print is one of a series by William Hogarth: The Four Stages of Cruelty. In this, the third plate, the fictional character Tom Nero has brutally murdered his pregnant lover, Ann Gill. On the ground beside Ann's body lie the goods Nero encouraged her to steal; her almost-severed hand points deliberately at a page in a book, which hi...