Trump (dog)

In the words of the Tate's display caption, "Hogarth's pug dog, Trump, serves as an emblem of the artist's own pugnacious character.

For example, in December 1730, he placed an advertisement offering a half guinea reward for the return of a dog named "Pugg".

The Staffordshire potter Josiah Wedgwood made a version in his Black Basalt ware, using a cast bought in 1774 from the London plaster shop of Richard Parker.

Trump sits on his haunches on a chair to the right of the painting, wearing Graham's wig, apparently reading from a sheet of music resting against a wine glass.

The Bruiser (a copy of which is held by the United States' National Gallery of Art)[12] replaces Hogarth's portrait with the satirist Charles Churchill, lampooned as a drunken bear, while the dog urinates on a copy of the Epistle published by Churchill in support of John Wilkes, which criticised Hogarth.