The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) Finish:Rolled Interior of the Hunterian Museum

Interior of the Hunterian Museum

Russell was now the Prime Minister

At the top is a group of hafted weapons and shields and on both sides several plate chanfrons for the protection of horses faces and heads

John Bull hands over the first year's allowance from the brimming coffers of public funds

The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) Finish:Rolled Interior of the Hunterian Museum'The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel)', 1754. The German composer Handel, here depicted as a pig, had a huge appetite. Here he is at his organ, sitting on a barrel of ale, surrounded by poultry, bottles, fish and oysters. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).