"More pigs than teats", or, The new litter of hungry grunters, sucking John-Bulls-old-sow to death / Js. Gillray inv. & fecit
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.