Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Finish:20-pack 'Dilettanti-theatricals

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In the foreground figures amble through the park and by the water's edge two swans watch the approach of a boy

Two decapitated heads can be seen speaking to each other on the top of Temple Bar

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New Palace Yard and the entrance to Westminster Hall

Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Finish:20-pack 'Dilettanti-theatricals'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.