The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) Finish:Rolled John Bull hands over the

John Bull hands over the first year's allowance from the brimming coffers of public funds

8th September 1990

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

Interior of the Hunterian Museum

Hypercompe scribonia

The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) Finish:Rolled John Bull hands over the'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).