Pleasure and Violence: Hogarth’s Four Stages of Cruelty

Meredith Gamer is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where she specialises in the art and visual culture of Britain and the Atlantic world. Her work has appeared in Sculpture Journal and Journal18 and in a number of edited volumes and exhibition catalogues, including William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum (2018) and Hogarth and Europe (2022). In 2014, she co-curated, with Esther Chadwick and Cyra Levenson, the exhibition Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain at the Yale Center for British Art. Her first monograph, “City of the Gallows: Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London”, is forthcoming with the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC)/Yale University Press. With the support of a PMC Mid-Career Fellowship, she is currently at work on a new book-length project, which focuses on the intersection of art, medicine and gender in the British Atlantic world.