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A Cheap and Easy Method of Improving English Swines's Flesh, 1743
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A Cheap and Easy Method of Improving English Swines's Flesh, 1743
King George II (1727-1760) is standing in the middle of a pig farm with a whip and a branding iron. On the right is a smoke house where meats and the names of new peers hang from 'R. Hooks on which they ought to be hang'd'. The figure on the lower right corner, John Carteret (1690-1763), is feeding the biggest of four pigs - named Sussex - with 'materials for ye Compost' and specially prepared food inscribed with titles in the Treasury and other offices. The first pig's excrement is labelled as 'paymaster', which is then eaten by a second pig, named 'Worcester'. The third pig, also named Worcester, is eating excrement titled 'cofferer'. In turn, the third pig excretes 'the lordship of Treasury', which is eaten up by Windsor, the smallest pig, as he excretes the 'board of works', which is being swept up with a broom, along with other posts, by Thomas Pelham-Holles, the Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768). Other pigs in the background are also feeding on more offices, and the 271 number on the pigsty refers to those who voted to keep Hanoverian troops at British expense
An elaborate satire on the appointment of government posts after the fall of Prime Minister Robert Walpole