William Hogarth, one of Englands foremost artists, made extensive use of animal images - as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Hogarths Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda offers an important examination of Hogarths intentions in the Four Stages of Cruelty (1751), a series of four prints generally neglected by art historians and wrongly identified by legal historians and other scholars as a milestone in the development of animal rights. In this book, Beirne analyses how Hogarths various audiences would have reacted to his gruesome images, and ultimately what was meant by cruelty.
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