The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) mb-code 42-26406502 old gate in the road

old gate in the road leading from Neptune Place

Two figures showing the passage of the seventh wave generated by the eruption of Krakatoa

Plate 9 from Coloured view of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

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 gate in the road'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).