"An obese man, one Read, stands directed to the right, head in profile, sucking a straw and holding a cane against right shoulder. He has short legs, accentuated by a long waistcoat, and wears round hat with curved brim, riding-breeches, and spurred b...
A fat elderly citizen, solidly seated, is beset by two pretty young women who offer him fruit. His wife (left) says "You must have some apricots my love." The woman on his right adds, "Just taste these grapes brother in law you never eat finer." He sh...
"Fox as Falstaff, enormously fat, with a pleased smile, stands declaiming: "The Laws of England are at my commandment. Happy are they which have been my friends; & woe to my Lord Chanr." On the right stands Hanger as Pistol, in a swaggering attitude, ...
Alternative Title:
King Henry IV, the last scene and King Henry the Fourth, the last scene
Description:
Title etched below image, on either side of centered text.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 29, 1788, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character),, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Carlton House (London, England),
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and l...
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"Two enormously fat courtesans sit side by side on a settee which they completely fill; between them and on the knees of both sits the Duke of Norfolk, a wine-glass in his left hand, in his right he holds the hand of one of the women at whom he gazes ...
Alternative Title:
Rich pickings for a noble appetite
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 1792 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
In a French brothel, an obese old man sits lounges in an armchair with a large eyeglass in his hand; the matron of the establishment stands at his side gesturing to the four young women are parade through the door, showing off their figures as they en...
Alternative Title:
Amour à l'anglaise
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Genty, rue St. Jacques, No. 14?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Obesity, Prostitutes, and Foreign public opinion, French
A pair of obese English men, walking arm-in-arm, meet on a street an equally large couple, the woman in an ill-fitting dress and odd bonnet. In the center background, a very thin man looks on with amusement
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, libraire, rue du Coq
Subject (Geographic):
France. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Clothing & dress, Obesity, and Foreign public opinion, French
"Design in a circle. A man and wife seated at a circular breakfast-table. The man, who is obese and a gourmand, sits in profile to the right. holding a bowl with a spoon in it in one hand, a bill of fare in the other inscribed "Soup . . . Turbot. Duck...
Alternative Title:
Man of taste
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. the 10th, 1781, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street
"Two designs on one plate. Top (BMSat 6868): A young woman lies under a tree asleep, partly supported by a small beer barrel; a rake is beside her. Next her a young man sits up yawning and stretching. A dog sits beside them; in the distance are sheep....
Alternative Title:
Nap in town
Description:
Title etched below images. Each image signed and dated in image and each with an imprint statement below.
Publisher:
Pubd. by S. Alken, No. 3 Dufours Place, Broad Street, Soho
