Second Stage of Cruelty, plate II from The Four Stages of Cruelty Finish:20-pack Buckingham Street

Buckingham Street

giving its original dedication

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

Interior view of the Coal Exchange

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 Buckingham Street'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.