- Title:
The First Stage of Cruelty
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Medium:
- 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:
- View by request 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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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, cat. no. 4, N5247.M385 L62 (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)
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)
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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)
The Creative Printmaker, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, no. 14, NE628 C74 (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)
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)
Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 52, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 52, 715 Y18 977b (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, cat. no. 4, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)