Obese Collection

Dropsy Courting Consumption, October 25, 1810. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Dropsy Courting Consumption, October 25, 1810

A whist-er at Boodles - or a choice peice [sic] of double milled Yorkshire broad cloth, 1820. A very obese man in profile is about to step into Boodles club, Pall Mall

The old man and the frog, 1904. Creator: Charles Lucien Léandre
The old man and the frog, 1904. Le vieillard et la grenouille'. A large sleeping man sits with his back to a round table, on which a frog in a glass bottle climbs a staircase, watched by a maid

An Unkind Wish, c. 1833. Creator: George Cruikshank
An Unkind Wish, c. 1833

Je ne pourrai jamais laver tout ça, 1872. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je ne pourrai jamais laver tout ca, 1872. I'll never be able to wash it all away

Nous avons donc volé le ballon de Mr. Green?, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Nous avons donc vole le ballon de Mr. Green?, 19th century. Whatever you want - So we stole Mr. Green's balloon

Portrait of François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641-1691), Minister of War, c1680
Portrait of Francois-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641-1691), Minister of War, c1680

A Kiss at the Congress, published November 18, 1818. Creator: William Heath
A Kiss at the Congress, published November 18, 1818

Inconvenient Partners in Waltzing, 1817/19. Creator: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Inconvenient Partners in Waltzing, 1817/19

The Irish Ogre Fattening on the Finest Pisantry, 1843. Daniel O Connell (1775-1847) The Liberator, leader of the Repeal (of union with Britain) movement, shown growing fat on his supporters

Silenus, as a Vase, Satyr Handle, 1540-56. Creator: Leon Davent
Silenus, as a Vase, Satyr Handle, 1540-56

James Vibert, Sculptor, 1907. Creator: Ferdinand Hodler
James Vibert, Sculptor, 1907

In an Elevator, 1916. Creator: George Wesley Bellows
In an Elevator, 1916

Two Girls, 1917. Creator: George Wesley Bellows
Two Girls, 1917

Man with Big Belly, c. 1622. Creator: Jacques Callot
Man with Big Belly, c. 1622

The Conversation, 1891. Creator: Edouard Vuillard
The Conversation, 1891

French Liberty - British Slavery, December 21, 1792. Creator: James Gillray
French Liberty - British Slavery, December 21, 1792

Older Woman Wearing Flowered Bonnet, 1850s. Creator: Unknown
Older Woman Wearing Flowered Bonnet, 1850s

Thomas Hills Everett, Aged Eleven Months, 1822. Creator: Robert Cooper
Thomas Hills Everett, Aged Eleven Months, 1822. Portrait of Mrs Everitt and her son Thomas, the enormous baby. Thomas was born at Enfield, Middlesex, in 1779

Daniel Lambert, of Surprising Corpulency, 1821. Creator: R Cooper
Daniel Lambert, of Surprising Corpulency, 1821. Portrait of Daniel (1770-1809), keeper of Leicester gaol. In 1805, Lambert weighed 50 stone (320 kg)

Birth of the Princess Elizabeth, 1897. Creator: John Leech
Birth of the Princess Elizabeth, 1897. King Henry VIII looks despondently at his newborn daughter, while wishing for a male heir

Harry, the English Apollo, 1897. Creator: John Leech
Harry, the English Apollo, 1897. An obese King Henry VIII portrayed as a roly-poly toy. From " The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett

Catching an elephant, 1812. Two prostitutes encourage a hugely obese man towards the door of the Royal Bagnio in Bagnio Court, later known as Roman Bath Street

A corporate body under the operation of the Royal Commission, c1835. A fat Lord Mayor sits in the stocks. On the right Lord John Russell attacks him

Just looking out for somthing [sic] to stay my stomach till dinner time, 1830. Sir William Curtis scanning a bill of fare and rubbing his protruding belly with delight

St Georges Fields, Southwark, London, c1775. A large woman having difficulty passing through a gap in a fence, much to the amusement of the men near by

The aldermans dinner, 1775. An obese alderman eats gluttonously; his slimmer companion, bent over a plate, evidently suffers from gout as his bandaged foot rests on a cushion

Montpellier Rotunda, Cheltenham, 1833
Montpellier Rotunda, Cheltenham, pub. 1833 (hand coloured etching)

The First Kiss this Ten Years! Or the meeting of Britannia & Citizen Francois, 1803
The First Kiss this Ten Years! Or the meeting of Britannia & Citizen Francois, pub. 1803 (hand coloured engraving)

Forte Piano, 1829. Artist: George Cruikshank
Forte Piano, 1829. From Scraps & Sketches by George Cruikshank. [George Cruikshank, London, 1829]

Le Joueur De Golf, c1920, (1923). Artist: Maxime Dethomas
Le Joueur De Golf, c1920, (1923). From The Studio Volume 84. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1923]

An Appearance of Airiness, 1930. Artist: Gordon Ross
An Appearance of Airiness, 1930. From The Studio Volume 99. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1930]

Mrs. Hobson of Markfield, c1895. Painting housed at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXVII. [The Connoisseur Ltd, London, 1927]

A seaside postcard from Margate, Kent, 20th century

Mr Edward Bright (1721-1750), 1751. Bright was a grocer from Maldon, Essex. At the time of his death he was reputed to be the fattest man in England; his coat was said to be large enough to have

The Hostile View of Lady Hamilton, 19th century. Caricature by Gillray, entitled Dido in Despair

A portly gentleman looking through a telescope, 19th century

Starving poet and publisher, late 18th century. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Starving poet and publisher, late 18th century. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse

Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream, 1795. As a cedar tall and slender, sweet cowslips grace, is her nom tive case, and shes of the feminine gender - John O Keefe (1747-1833)

Captain Francis Grose By Himself, 18th century. Artist: Francis Grose
Captain Francis Grose By Himself, 18th century. Self-portrait of Grose (1731-1791), antiquary and friend of Robert Burns. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

Bacchus, 1560. Artist: Valerio di Simone Cioli
Bacchus, 1560. Statue in the Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy. It shows Pietro Barbino, Cosimo Is court dwarf, as Bacchus, riding a tortoise

A Little Bigger, 1791. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
A Little Bigger, 1791. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Letter T. Creator: Hans Holbein the Younger
Letter T

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