Title: The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty)
Object type: Print
Date: February 1, 1751
Artist:  William Hogarth 
Artist bio: British, London 1697–1764 London
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three
Dimensions: plate: 15 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (38.8 x 32 cm)
sheet: 15 3/4 x 13 1/16 in. (40 x 33.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Suffering, term: Men, term: Women, term: Coat of Arms, term: Punishment