The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) mb-code DCA_102520 Illustration from De humani corporis

Illustration from De humani corporis fabrica

Monte Carlo Rally

shines a torch in an interrogatory manner into the face of a Scotland Yard Policeman

Interior view of figures in the Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens

showing the area between Horse Guards and Admiralty on Whitehall

The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) mb-code DCA_102520 Illustration from De humani corporis'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).