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1 print : etching with engraving, on laid paper ; plate mark 389 x 318 mm, on sheet 611 x 471 mm
Tom Nero's body is laid out on a round table in a dissecting theatre. In niches on either side are two skeletons labeled "Gentn: Harry" and "Macleane" after two recently hanged criminals. Three doctors work on dissecting Tom's body as a dogs feeds on his entrails. The room is filled with doctors reading and discussing, the whole presided over by the chief surgeon in a large chair emblazoned with the arms of the Royal College of Physicians.
State, publisher, and series title from Paulson.
Final plate in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3166
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), 190