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

Interior of the Hunterian Museum

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson holding the FA Cup and Carling Premiership trophies at Old Trafford following his side's double success this season

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11th May 1970

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).