Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Finish:20-pack Interior view of the Coal

Interior view of the Coal Exchange

showing an ugly woman holding a spy glass which touches the circumference of a large circle representing a magnified drop of water filled with grotesque aquatic creatures

Two decapitated heads can be seen speaking to each other on the top of Temple Bar

To the left of the room Sarah Young has fainted and a woman with smelling salts tries to revive her

In the foreground figures amble through the park and by the water's edge two swans watch the approach of a boy

Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Finish:20-pack Interior view of the Coal'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.