"Social satire; a tall thin man with a tasselled tricorn hat in one hand and wearing a sword, wig, buckled shoes and rings on both hands steps forward towards a large lady with a wreath in her hair, beauty spots, several rings, a cupid's bow and arrow...
On the cobblestone street in front of an elegant house, a man in Scottish Highlander attire uses his back to hoist an obese woman into an awaiting carriage. The coachman stands beside him with a whip in hand; his nose is disfigured (syphilitic?).
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 25th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
"A fat old woman leans back in an armchair, her left leg thrust forward. She pulls up her petticoat to display the bare leg, on which is a running sore, to an aged doctor (right), who bends over it, holding his spectacles to his eyes. Her desperate pl...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Skin, Diseases, Courtesans, Physicians, Candles, Eyeglasses, and Obesity
"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face ... behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée ..., with monstrous ostrich feathers in her...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
G. Humphrey
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
"The Queen sits in profile to the right on a huge crown, her left foot on a footstool. She partly hides her face and an ambiguous grimace behind a fan inscribed C; in her right hand is a handkerchief. She is fat, very décolletée, and bejewelled, wit...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Fans (Accessories), Feathers, Handkerchiefs, Obesity, Sitting, and Stools
"A naked, bald, and grotesquely obese man stands on the tips of his toes about to plunge, or rather topple, into a bath, in which he admires, Narcissus-like, his own absurd reflection. He is poised on a platform projecting over the bath; behind him st...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 6, 1803, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Narcissus (Greek mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Public baths, Obesity, Therapeutic baths, Bathing, Nudes, and Signs (Notices)
