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Stages of Cruelty

Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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An exterior scene with three figures and a dog. At the centre is a young woman dressed in a white jacket with lace collar and cuffs and a full length blue skirt. There is a posy of red flowers, possibly geraniums, tucked into the breast of her jacket and she holds some embroidery in her left hand. She sits on a wall by some steps that go up to the right. There is a lilac tree behind her. Her lover, a young man, looks over the wall and clutches her hand and arm. He looks imploringly at her but she ignores him and instead looks over at the young girl teasing her dog at the foot of the steps. The girl has a red dress and white bonnet and in one hand holds a stem of flowers with which she is about to hit the dog. The dog, a blood-hound, looks forlorn and has raised one of its paws.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Stages of Cruelty

Date

1856–1890

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 73.3 x W 59.9 cm

Accession number

1911.104

Acquisition method

purchased from Henry Boddington, 1911

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed blc (monogram) : FMB - 56 / -90

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Manchester Art Gallery

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