The Four Stages of Cruelty " review by Maddy Costa

Arcola, LondonPublished in 1751 for distribution among London's lower orders, William Hogarth's illustrations of the Four Stages of Cruelty contained a blunt moral message: don't stick an arrow up a dog's bottom, because it's bound to end in tears. Tom Nero, the boy who executes this wicked deed in the first frame, degenerates from the beating of beasts to the murder of humans; finally he is hanged at Tyburn and, wit…

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