The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) mb-code 42-26406502 Plate 9 from Coloured view

Plate 9 from Coloured view of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

The upper view shows London Bridge decorated with flags and on both riverbanks crowds have gathered to watch the occasion

The Forth Rail Bridge

omnibuses and horses in the street

The Charming Brute, (A satire on Handel) mb-code 42-26406502 Plate 9 from Coloured view'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).