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

Interior of the Hunterian Museum

as a protest against war and violence in the world

on the second day of the General Strike

8th September 1990

The French Horn Inn

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).