- Title:
- The First Stage of Cruelty
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Materials & Techniques:
- Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches (39.4 x 33.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
(Pro Patria) (?)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1543
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- artillery | bone | buildings | cats (domestic cats) | coats | dogs (animals) | genre subject | gibbets | hats | lamps (lighting devices) | men | puppets | shoes (footwear) | windows
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10003
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William Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor (The Morgan Library & Museum, 2019-05-24 - 2019-09-22) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
William Hogarth (1697-1764) (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 1989-08-26 - 1989-11-12) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Drawings and Watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, no. 4, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA) [YCBA]
English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, April 15 - June 20 1965, p. 14, no. 4, NC228 Y34 (YCBA) [YCBA]
William Rummel Francis, William Hogarth : A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Virginia Museum, , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA., January 30-March 5, 1967, p. 31, no. 39, NJ18 H67 +F72 1967 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Adolf Paul Oppé, The drawings of William Hogarth, Phaidon, London, 1948, pp. 18, 47, 67, no. 70, NJ18 H67 O66 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 203, no. 392, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works / compiled and with a commentary by Ronald Paulson, Print Room, London, p. 149, no. 187, NJ18 H67 P38 1989 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Laurel Peterson, Hogarth and the making of the Four Stages of Cruelty, Master Drawings, vol. 62, Spring 2024, pp. 33-35, 40, fig. 21, NC1 .M37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Pierpont Morgan Library, Hogarth : Cruelty and Humor, Accessed May 5, 2023, https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/hogarth [Website]
The Creative Printmaker, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, no. 14, NE628 C74 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 174-175, no. 148, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
William Hogarth : dipinti, disegni, incisioni : 26 Agosto-12 Novembre, 1989., , 6, Neri Pozza, Vincenza, Italy, 26 August- 12 November, p. 57, no. 89, NJ18 H67 W55 1989 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 52, N590.2 A82 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15-June 20,1965, , New Haven, 1965, no. 4, NC228 Y34 (YCBA) [YCBA]