Despite having earlier refused to submit to her father's tyranny and therefore not to shed a tear in his presence, Sigismunda now weeps openly as she clutches her husband's heart to her chest and realises the heinous acts of her father.
Despite having earlier refused to submit to her father's tyranny and therefore not to shed a tear in his presence, Sigismunda later committed suicide, by drinking poison from the cup that held her husband's heart. Hogarth shows her weeping openly as she clutches her husband's heart to her chest and realises the heinous acts of her father.