Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Size:XL: 100 x 80cm With figures and vehicles around

With figures and vehicles around it

Wych Street

A watchman holds his lamp out of his box to interrogate a young man of fashion who is drunk and unable to stand

'Wellington's Monument in St Paul's Cathedral'

View of Tattersall's horse sale yard at Hyde Park Corner

Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Size:XL: 100 x 80cm With figures and vehicles around'Second Stage of Cruelty', plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1751. Tom Nero, as a coachman, is beating his disabled horse savagely, behind is an overturned carriage crammed full of barristers from Thieves' Inn. To the right a drover clubs a sheep to death, whilst behind him a sleepy drayman has just run over a boy with his cart.