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- Title:
- The First Stage of Cruelty: Children Torturing Animals
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1751
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 3/8 × 12 3/4 inches (39.1 × 32.4 cm), Image: 13 7/8 × 11 5/8 inches (35.2 × 29.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image, upper center: "FIRST STAGE OF CRUELTY."; inside image, center: "Tom Nero"; center: "S:G"; below image, lower center: "While various Scenes of sportive Woe | The Infant Race employ, | And tortur'd Victims bleeding shew | The Tyrant in the Boy. | Behold! a Youth of gentler Heart, | To spare the Creature's pain | O take, he cries -- take all my Tart, | But Tears and Tart are vain. | Learn from this fair Example -- You | Whom savage Sports delight, | How Cruelty disgusts the view | While Pity charms the sight."; lower left: "Design'd by W. Hogarth"; lower center: "Published according to Act of Parliament Feb. 1. 1751."; lower right: "Price 1 s."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1440
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42045
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Alice Insley, William Hogarth : visions in print, Tate Publishing, London, 2021, pp. 15, 60, 78, NJ18 .H67 I57 2021 (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Mullan, His Picture was His Stage, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 5425, March 23, 2007, pp. 18-19, Film S748 (SML) Also Available Online in TLS Archive [ORBIS]