Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Size:XL: 100 x 80cm View of Tattersall's horse sale

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

With figures and vehicles around it

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

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

Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Size:XL: 100 x 80cm View of Tattersall's horse sale'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.