Cruelty in Perfection

William Hogarth1751

Details

Title: Cruelty in Perfection
Creator: John Bell after William Hogarth
Date Created: 1751
Subject Keywords: allegory, death, series (groups), vices
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “J. Bell Sculp”; dated January 1751
Set or Series Title: The Four Stages of Cruelty
Print State: First of two states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1962
Materials & Techniques: Woodcut on laid paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: From a set of two woodcuts after plates 3 and 4 of Hogarth’s Four Stages of Cruelty
Bibliography: Paulson 189 copy i/ii (listed as ii/ii in Paulson); see R. Vogler, Reading Hogarth (Los Angeles, 1988), nos. 59 and 60, p. 14
Associated People: Created by John Bell (British (English), active 1750-1780), After William Hogarth (British (English), 1697-1764)
Accession Number: 1962.41.11

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