First Stage of Cruelty, plate I from The Four Stages of Cruelty mb-width 1799 a satire on indiscriminate fly-posting

a satire on indiscriminate fly-posting

View of the procession on the new Blackfriars Bridge

Aerial view of London with decorative border

Iconography

Illuminated vote of thanks from the Mayor of Paris to the Lord Mayor of London

First Stage of Cruelty, plate I from The Four Stages of Cruelty mb-width 1799 a satire on indiscriminate fly-posting'First Stage of Cruelty', plate I from The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1751. Tom Nero is torturing a dog with an arrow, whilst another young man attempts to prevent the torment, in vain, by offering Tom his tart. Behind, a man draws a figure hanging from a gibbet with the youth's name below, predicting his fortune.