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

View showing the north side of Knightrider Street (a portion formerly known as Old Fish Street)

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

Buckingham Street

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.