The Reward of Cruelty  1751

Medium: [br]Etching and engraving This is the final plate from William Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty series. It demonstrates the end result of all cruelty: the punishment and death of the perpetrator. Nero (who in the third print of the series murdered a young girl) has in this final scene been found guilty and hanged. In the 18th century criminals' bodies were typic...