The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) mb-code 42-26406502 Old Hummums Hotel

Old Hummums Hotel

The upper view shows London Bridge decorated with flags and on both riverbanks crowds have gathered to watch the occasion

Trained as a printer

The Forth Rail Bridge

showing John Bull on his hands and knees on a flat rock

The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) mb-code 42-26406502 Old Hummums Hotel'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).