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Harpyes Destroying the Feast, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1799 (hand-coloured etching)

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Harpyes Destroying the Feast, published by Hannah Humphrey in 1799 (hand-coloured etching)

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1799 AD (C18th AD)

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'The Feast' is a steaming sirloin in a dish inscribed John Bull's Comfort, flanked by a frothing tankard decorated with the Royal Arms and a plum-pudding. The three harpies, Tierney, Shuckburgh, and Jekyll, vomit and excrete on the feast. Tierney hovers over the tankard, Shuckburgh over the beef; Jekyll, with webbed wings and barrister's wig and bands, is planted on the pudding. Joseph Jekyll (1754-1837) politician; MP for Calne. Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Bt (1751-1804), Politician, MP for Warwickshire. George Tierney (1761-1830), Politician; MP for several constituencies.

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