The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) Finish:Rolled as a protest against war

as a protest against war and violence in the world

8th September 1990

on the second day of the General Strike

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 as a protest against war'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).