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

flanked by figures in ceremonial costume and figures seated in the choir and the south transept

A troop of soldiers

Wych Street

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

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.