Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Size:XL: 100 x 80cm A watchman holds his lamp

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'

showing the Angel Public House at no 85 and sewer pipes waiting to be laid

A troop of soldiers

Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Size:XL: 100 x 80cm A watchman holds his lamp'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.