The Pig and The Peasant Size:M: 60 x 45cm after a painting of 1699

after a painting of 1699

The consequence of going before the wind'

John Bull and Mr Punch represent the British

which was always a subject that occupied Punch

The Pig and The Peasant Size:M: 60 x 45cm after a painting of 1699'The Pig and The Peasant', 1863. Peasant says: Ah! I'd Like To Be Cared Vor Half As Well As Thee As Thee Be! Here, Mr Punch highlights the problem by neatly contrasting the fat, healthy pigs and piglets in the clean, hay filled sty. Looking gloomily over the wall is the unkempt, thin, representative of the rural worker, and in the background can be seen the worker's dilapidated, tumbledown cottage. The year's harvest had been good, but little benefit