Cruelty Collection (#2)

The stoning of St Stephen, 1635, Netherlands. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
The stoning of St Stephen, 1635, Netherlands.

The stoning of St Stephen, 1635. Creator: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
The stoning of St Stephen, 1635.

Driving home in the rain, 1914. Creator: Edmund Blampied
Driving home in the rain, 1914.

Expedition to Novaya Zemlya; Walrus hunt in Magdalenefjorden (Norway), 1680. Creator: Jan Luyken
Expedition to Novaya Zemlya; Walrus hunt in Magdalenefjorden (Norway), 1680. Depicting a highlight on the Third Arctic Expedition of Willem Barentsz (1596)

The Wiltshire Champion Coursing Meeting at Stonehenge, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Wiltshire Champion Coursing Meeting at Stonehenge, 1865. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. G. B. Goddard, representing '...the trysting-place for the coursers on one or two mornings during

Sea Adventure: The buccaneers at Porto Bello (colour litho)
8668732 Sea Adventure: The buccaneers at Porto Bello (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The buccaneers at Porto Bello)

German hunting enclosure, 18th Century (woodcut)
8672856 German hunting enclosure, 18th Century (woodcut) by German School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: German hunting enclosure, 18th Century)

Bullfight, Seville, Spain (engraving)
8676903 Bullfight, Seville, Spain (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bullfight, Seville, Spain)

Beauty is only skin deep (colour litho)
8656187 Beauty is only skin deep (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Beauty is only skin deep - then for heaven's sake skin her)

Hunting walrus (engraving)
8663863 Hunting walrus (engraving) by French School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Hunting walrus)

Cockfighting in Flanders (litho)
8663693 Cockfighting in Flanders (litho) by Cogghe, Remy (1854-1935); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cockfighting in Flanders)

Deer hunting using a water trap, 18th Century (engraving)
8663621 Deer hunting using a water trap, 18th Century (engraving) by German School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Deer hunting using a water trap)

Cleopatra visits Herod, c 33 BC (litho)
8661272 Cleopatra visits Herod, c 33 BC (litho) by Valda, John Harris (1874-1942); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cleopatra visits Herod, c 33 BC)

Jahrmarkt / Fair (colour litho)
8666307 Jahrmarkt / Fair (colour litho) by Christophe (Colomb, Georges) (1856-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Jahrmarkt)

Fox tossing, 18th Century (engraving)
8663620 Fox tossing, 18th Century (engraving) by German School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fox tossing, a blood sport of the 18th Century)

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Högtorp…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Sweden: elk-shooting in the Forest of Hogtorp - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. The future King Edward VII in Scandinavia

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Engraving of a photograph...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: herd of wild elephants, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: herd of wild elephants, 1864. Engraving of a photograph...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Prize donkeys and mule at the Show in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Prize donkeys and mule at the Show in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1864. We present an Illustration of the mule and donkey show...The object of its promoters was especially to recommend an

Calvary, 1923. Creator: Ludvig Karsten
Calvary, 1923

Costumes de Différents Pays, Guerrier Iroquois, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Guerrier Iroquois, c1797

The Educated Mules at the Alhambra Palace, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Educated Mules at the Alhambra Palace, 1858. American circus in London: Messrs. Howes and Cushing's "educated" mules, Barney and Pete who...must have had

First Meet of the Season of the Cotswold Hounds, 1858. Creator: Unknown
First Meet of the Season of the Cotswold Hounds, 1858. Fox hunting in rural England. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. G. Goddard. These hounds, under the mastership of Clego Colmore, Esq

Grouse-shooting - from a drawing by Harrison Weir, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Grouse-shooting - from a drawing by Harrison Weir, 1860. Blood sports. Several bags averaged above 18 brace. That of the Prince Consort and Sir George Grey and suite, in the Moss of Monaltrie

Watonai Capturing a Tiger, c1830. Creator: Utagawa Kunisada
Watonai Capturing a Tiger, c1830

Hind Forced Down in the Snow, after 1857. Creator: Unknown
Hind Forced Down in the Snow, after 1857. In the 1857 Salon Courbet showed his celebrated "Hind Forced Down in the Snow, " (92.5 x 147 cm)

Untitled: Study of a Horsecart, 1855-1859. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Untitled: Study of a Horsecart, 1855-1859

Exhibition of Rhinoceros-Fighting at Baroda, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Exhibition of Rhinoceros-Fighting at Baroda, 1876. Entertainment laid on for the future King Edward VII by the Gaekwar of Baroda during a royal visit to India

Martyrdom of a Christian saint, 1497. Creator: Master of Anne de Bretagne
Martyrdom of a Christian saints, 1497. Illustration from a Book of Hours. Latin text: Initium sancti evangelii secundum Johannem

The Prince of Wales shooting otters at Beypore, from a sketch by an officer of the Serapis, 1876. Creator: L.B
The Prince of Wales shooting otters at Beypore [in India], from a sketch by an officer of the Serapis, 1876. The Prince [the future King Edward VII], on his way from Bombay to Ceylon

The Dead Fox, c.1864. Creator: Gustave Courbet
The Dead Fox, c.1864

Coursing meeting at Hampton Park, 1860. Creator: Frederick John Skill
Coursing meeting at Hampton Park, 1860. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Elstob Marshall....the Hampton Meeting is the great rendezvous for Cockney coursers...This year the coursing at the Champion

The Child of Horisaka Sahei Tied to a Rice Bale, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Child of Horisaka Sahei Tied to a Rice Bale, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 508

The Coup de Lance, 1593. Creator: Jan Wierix
The Coup de Lance, 1593. From Evangelicae Historiae Imagines

C'est t'y à vous c'hien là ?, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
C'est t'y a vous c'hien la ?, 1847. Is this your dog? From Tout ce qu'on voudra, no. 20

The Bull leaping the barrier; Notes on Spain, 1875. Creator: Unknown
The Bull leaping the barrier; Notes on Spain, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

The Banderillero in the chair; Notes on Spain, 1875. Creator: Unknown
The Banderillero in the chair; Notes on Spain, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

The Espada; Notes on Spain, 1875. Creator: Unknown
The Espada; Notes on Spain, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy, c.1505-c.1510. Creator: Master of the Figdor Deposition
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy, c.1505-c.1510

Pastoral Cruelty, n.d. Creator: Johann Lorenz Rugendas I
Pastoral Cruelty, n.d

"Bringing Home the Deer" - painted by Bottomley, 1857. Creator: Unknown
"Bringing Home the Deer" - painted by Bottomley, 1857. This characteristic scene is engraved from a drawing made by Mr. Bottomley on a recent visit to the Highlands of Scotland

Throwing Bulls at Seville before the Prince of Wales, from a sketch by our special artist, 1876. Creator: L.B
Throwing Bulls at Seville before the Prince of Wales, from a sketch by our special artist, 1876.... several gentlemen and noblemen...were dressed in the picturesque national costume of black short

The Show-man, 1799. Creator: Monogrammist J.A
The Show-man, 1799. Keep your eye close to the Glass - and you will see a large / vide place full of Death and Destruction - where more / plagues await de frequenters den contained in de famous Box

Three children playing with a goat, 1771. Creator: Juriaan Andriessen
Three children playing with a goat, 1771

The Stoning of Christ, early 15th century. Creator: Unknown
The Stoning of Christ, early 15th century

Girl with Bullfinch in a Cage, 1766. Creator: Per Krafft the Elder
Girl with Bullfinch in a Cage, 1766

A Boar Hunt, 1677. Creator: Juriaen Jacobsz
A Boar Hunt, 1677

The Mousetrap, 1660. Creator: Gerritsz Quiringh van Brekelenkam
The Mousetrap, 1660

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"Cruelty: A Dark Reality Unveiled" In a world tainted by the shadows of cruelty, we are confronted with the harsh truths that lie beneath our civilized façade. From the hunting grounds where foxes fall victim to man's pursuit, to the chilling tales of "Christmas Day in the Workhouse, " where suffering becomes an unwelcome companion. Even in works of art like "Black Beauty 1967" or George Studdy's poignant creation "Nobody Loves Me, " we witness how they are manifest itself within human hearts. H. M. Bateman's haunting depiction of "Mental Cruelty" serves as a stark reminder that pain is not always physical but can also torment one's mind. Throughout history, artists like William Hogarth have captured society's moral decay through pieces such as "The Reward of Cruelty. " Meanwhile, John Tenniel portrays heartless indifference in his portrayal of "The Queen of Hearts. " Looking back further into time, Peter Paul Rubens' masterpiece "Le Coup de Lance" reminds us that even great conquerors like Attila the Hun were not immune to inflicting harm upon others. From Puritan times when punishment was mercilessly doled out for unauthorized religious meetings, as seen in Charles Stanley Reinhart's wood engraving depicting Obadiah Holmes' whipping; to more modern forms such as hare coursing depicted in lithographs from 1892 – humanity has shown its capacity for brutality throughout generations. Yet amidst this darkness, there are glimmers of hope and compassion. The tale of the Kettle Cat teaches us about resilience and kindness prevailing against adversity. As we reflect on these glimpses into mankind's capacity for cruelty, let it serve as a call to action. Let us strive towards empathy and understanding so that someday we may banish this darkness from our world and replace it with compassion and love.