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The Third Stage of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection - The Murder   (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

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Title
The Third Stage of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection - The Murder
title QS:P1476,en:"The Third Stage of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection - The Murder"
label QS:Len,"The Third Stage of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection - The Murder"
Object type genre subject
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 1751
date QS:P571,+1751-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium "Line engraving on thick, white, smooth wove paper"
Dimensions height: 387 mm (15.23 in); width: 324 mm (12.75 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,387U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,324U174789
institution QS:P195,Q6352575
Current location
not on view
Accession number
YCBA/lido-TMS-62705
Inscriptions
English: Inscribed in graphite lower right: "76"

English: Not signed, not dated
Notes More info at museum site
Source/Photographer NAHyUHVWbyQ1jw at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

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