Its final scene depicts "the reward of" the title trait, and portrays the central figure's dead body being dissected by surgeons.
The background of this work's first scene features a cat tied to two bladders being thrown out a window. The second scene depicts four fat barristers trapped in a fallen carriage, whose driver is in the midst of beating a horse. The central figure of this work is pictured inserting an arrow into a dog's rectum in the first scene, and is grabbed by men carrying pitchforks after murdering his pregnant lover Ann Gill in its third scene. Its final scene depicts "the reward of" the title trait, and portrays the central figure's dead body being dissected by surgeons. Focusing on Tom Nero, who progresses from brutality to animals to outright murder, for fifteen points, identify this series of engravings by William Hogarth.
The background of this work's first scene features a cat tied to two bladders being thrown out a window.
The Four {Stages} of {Cruelty}