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Cruelty in Perfection (The Four Stages of Cruelty), print, William Hogarth (MET, 32.35(120))

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Cruelty in Perfection (The Four Stages of Cruelty)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
William Hogarth  (1697–1764)  wikidata:Q171344 s:en:Author:William Hogarth q:en:William Hogarth
 
William Hogarth
Description English-British painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 10 November 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 25 October 1764
Location of birth/death London London
Work location
London, Chiswick
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q171344
Title
Cruelty in Perfection (The Four Stages of Cruelty)
Description

The letter reads: "Dear Tommy
My Mistress has been the best of Women to me, and my Conscience flies in my face as often as I think of wronging her, yet I am resolved to venture Body & Soul to do as you would as you would have me, so don't fail to meet me as you say you would. For I shall bring along with me all the things I can lay my hands on. So no more at present, but I remain yours till Death. Ann Gill."

Poem below the image:

To lawless Love when once betray'd,
Soon Crime to Crime succeeds:
At length beguil'd to Theft, the Maid
By her Beguiler bleeds.

Yet learn, seducing Man'nor Night,
With all its sable Cloud,
Can screen the guilty Deed from sight:
Foul Murder cries aloud.

The gaping Wounds, and bloodstain'd steel,
Now shock his trembling Soul:
But Oh! what Pangs his Breast must feel,

When Death his Knell shall toll.
Date 1 February 1751
date QS:P571,+1751-02-01T00:00:00Z/11
Medium Etching and engraving; only state
Dimensions sheet: 12 7/16 x 12 1/2 in. (31.6 x 31.8 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Drawings and Prints
Accession number
32.35(120)
Credit line Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/400042

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