Title

'The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel)', 1754. Artist: Unknown

Caption

'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).
The Print Collector collection

Date

Nov 30, 1999

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C24_464

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,7Mb) / 12,5in x 15,5in / 3753 x 4657 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany animal food drink people male man men music German arts bird birds country guy pig British alcohol beer poultry owl organ greed location century composer musical instrument Britain mirror concept greedy barrel barrels vanity hog B&W vain charming MONOCHROME glutton gluttony oboe black & white black and white B W brute 18th century Eighteenth Century The Print Collector George Frideric Handel George caricature satire portrait Unknown Handel George Frideric George Frederick Handel Georg Friedrich Handel George Paston Paston Symonds Emily Morse Emily Morse Symonds George Paston caricature satire portrait