Print shows an old sow lying on a pile of straw and beset by thirty-two voracious piglets with human heads. John Bull, holding a pitchfork, looks over the low stone wall surrounding the sty and exclaims: O Lord - O Lord! - well! - I never had such a Litter of hungry Pigs in all my life before! - why, they's beyond all count! - where the devil do they think I shall find Wash & Grains for all their Guts? - zookers, why they a drain the poor old Sow to an Otomy! - 'e'cod She'll make but bad Bacon for Boney, when they's all done sucking o' her - !!! Among the piglets may be recognized Fox, Grenville, Grey, the Prince, Lord Temple, Sidmouth, Lord Henry Petty, Sheridan, Erskine, Lauderdale, Vansittart, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Tierney, the Duke of Bedford, Lord Derby, George Walpole, Adair, Burdett, Horne Tooke, Lord Carlisle, Lord St. Vincent, Courteney, Lord Spencer, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Fitzwilliam, and Moira.
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"More pigs than teats", or, The new litter of hungry grunters, sucking John-Bulls-old-sow to death / Js. Gillray inv. & fecit
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James Gillray
1756-1815
"More pigs than teats", or, The new litter of hungry grunters, sucking John-Bulls-old-sow to death / Js. Gillray inv. & fecit
London : Pubd March 5th, 1806, by H Humphrey 27 St James's Street, [1806]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.343
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London : Pubd. March 5th, 1806, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street, [1806]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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