Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Wych Street

Wych Street

Young ladies playing cards to the right and a crowd hoping to gain entrance to the club on the left

Scene showing the ascent of Mr Graham in his hot air balloon

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

View of Tattersall's horse sale yard at Hyde Park Corner

Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Wych Street'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.