'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.
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