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37. A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1792 i.e. not before 1849]
- Call Number:
- 792.01.03.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt's post-like person. She looks up at him expectantly; he stares over her head with a pained expression. Beneath the title is etched: 'Definitions from Euclid. Def: Ist B: 4th. A Sphere, is a Figure bounded by a Convex surface; it is the most perfect of all forms; its Properties are generated from its Centre; and it possesses a larger Area than any other Figure. - Def: 2d B: Ist A Plane, is a perfectly even & regular Surface, it is the most Simple of all Figures ; it has neither the Properties of Length or of Breadth ; and when applied ever so closely to a Sphere, can only touch its Superficies, without being able to enter it - Vide. Euclid, illustrated; by the Honble Mrs Circumference.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., "No. 72" in upper right corner., and Restrike of No. 8054 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 3d. 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, and Euclid.
- Subject (Topic):
- Mathematics, Obesity, and Vehicles
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].
38. A tenth rejected, or, The dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.04.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A farmyard scene, with a corner of the house on the left. A grossly fat and carbuncled parson on a quest for tithes encounters the farmer's wife, who runs towards him proffering an open bandbox, with a dangling lid inscribed 10th. A miniature hussar, very dandified in shako and pelisse, stands in it, superciliously inspecting the parson through an eye-glass. The woman, who is plump and well-dressed, wearing apron and bonnet, says: Seeing your Reverence comeing for your Tithes, I have brought you a Tenth. The parson, who holds a large book, Tithe list, and has a chicken in his capacious pocket, answers with a scowl and gesture of refusal: Take it back! take it back! good Woman; I never tithe Monkeys. The little hussar says: Eh! eh! what does that there fellow say? An amused yokel with a pitchfork leans over a gate (left). A cock crows on a dunghill, an ass brays. Corn-sheaves stand in a distant field."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox and Dandified coxcomb in a bandbox
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 10th April 1824 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Clergy, England, Obesity, Boxes, Farms, Donkeys, Roosters, and Pitchforks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tenth rejected, or, The dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox [graphic].
39. A turtle eater drawn from the life. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [13 February 1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.02.13.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A short obese man stands facing the viewer, his right hand tucked in his waistcoat. His wig and clothes are old-fashioned. He wears a short, fur-trimmed coat on top
- Description:
- Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: initials G R below watermark that has been almost completely cut off., and Annotated on verso: from Ld. B. Album.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, Febry. 13, 1772, by Wm. Tringham, under St. Dunstans Church, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A turtle eater drawn from the life. [graphic]
40. A view from Trinity College, Cambridge [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 January 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 52. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mansel, Bishop of Bristol and Master of Trinity (from 1798), walks from left to right, and slightly towards the spectator, head in profile, and thrown back, his mortar-board in his left hand. His voluminous, inflated, and much convoluted gown covers a bulky figure. He wears a clerical wig."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker tentatively identified as Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue., Leaf 52 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Bishop of Bristol" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 10th, 1810, by Dighton, 6 Charg. Cross
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Mansel, William Lort, 1753-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops, Clergy, College administrators, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from Trinity College, Cambridge [graphic].
41. A view of a Temple near Buckingham [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- July 1811.
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 76. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A caricature portrait of the Marquis of Buckingham (George Grenville Nugent Temple) walking in profile to the left. He wears military uniform with cocked hat and spurred Hessians, and is enormously obese, his sword-belt grotesquely clasped across his paunch. His hand is on the hilt of his sword. He was Lord Lieutenant of Bucks. Unlike other caricatures of Buckingham."--British Museum online catalogue and "George identified the subject as George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813) but it is, rather, his son Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), known until 1813 as Earl Temple."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 76 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [E]dmeads 1808., and Figure identified as "Marquess Buckingham" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Dighton, Spring Gardens
- Subject (Name):
- Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos, Duke of, 1776-1839 and Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813,
- Subject (Topic):
- Military uniforms, British, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of a Temple near Buckingham [graphic].
42. A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [2 July 1792]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leans back in an arm-chair, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a single button across his distended stomach. On his right a circular table covered with the remains of a meal, with decanters of 'Port' and 'Brandy', a castor of 'Chian'. Under the table, partly covered by the cloth, are empty wine-bottles. Behind the chair (right) a brimming chamber-pot stands on a table or commode on which are long bills: 'Poulterers Bill . . . unpaid, Butcher's Bill . . . unpaid, Baker's Bill . . . unpaid', and (on the ground) 'Doctors Bill'. In the foreground (right) lie a dice-box and dice with three books: 'Debts of Honor Unpaid', 'Newmarket List', and 'Faro Partnership Account Self Archer Hobart & Co.' On a shelf behind the Prince (right) is a triple stand of jelly-glasses, among which is a small pot: 'For the Piles', and a bottle: 'Drops for a Stinking Breath'. Beside it are a box of 'Leakes Pills', and a bottle of 'Velnos Vegetable Syrup' (see BMSat 7592). On the wall above is a candle-sconce with a burlesque coat of arms for the Prince: a plate with a crossed knife and fork, with his motto, coronet, and feathers; one candle is stuck in a wine-bottle, the other in a wine-glass. Above the Prince's head is a round picture in an elaborate frame inscribed 'L. Comoro, Ætat. 199 [sic]': a half length portrait of a man with a long beard drinking from a glass inscribed 'Aqua'. (Luigi Cornaro of Padua, 1467-1566, published 'Discorri della vita sobria . . .', a treatise on the means of living to extreme old age, describing the ascetic diet by which he had recovered health and vitality when in danger of death at the age of forty. Portrait by Tintoretto, Pitti Palace.) A carpet covers the floor. Through the window is seen the (unfinished) colonnade of Carlton House."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Companion print to: Temperance enjoying a frugal meal., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Gastronomy., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.2 x 29.0 cm, on sheet 41.6 x 33.0 cm., and Mounted on leaf 45 of volume 8 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 2d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Gluttony, Obesity, Chamber pots, Eating & drinking, Medicines, Gambling, and Sconces
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion [graphic]
43. A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [2 July 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.07.02.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leans back in an arm-chair, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a single button across his distended stomach. On his right a circular table covered with the remains of a meal, with decanters of 'Port' and 'Brandy', a castor of 'Chian'. Under the table, partly covered by the cloth, are empty wine-bottles. Behind the chair (right) a brimming chamber-pot stands on a table or commode on which are long bills: 'Poulterers Bill . . . unpaid, Butcher's Bill . . . unpaid, Baker's Bill . . . unpaid', and (on the ground) 'Doctors Bill'. In the foreground (right) lie a dice-box and dice with three books: 'Debts of Honor Unpaid', 'Newmarket List', and 'Faro Partnership Account Self Archer Hobart & Co.' On a shelf behind the Prince (right) is a triple stand of jelly-glasses, among which is a small pot: 'For the Piles', and a bottle: 'Drops for a Stinking Breath'. Beside it are a box of 'Leakes Pills', and a bottle of 'Velnos Vegetable Syrup' (see BMSat 7592). On the wall above is a candle-sconce with a burlesque coat of arms for the Prince: a plate with a crossed knife and fork, with his motto, coronet, and feathers; one candle is stuck in a wine-bottle, the other in a wine-glass. Above the Prince's head is a round picture in an elaborate frame inscribed 'L. Comoro, Ætat. 199 [sic]': a half length portrait of a man with a long beard drinking from a glass inscribed 'Aqua'. (Luigi Cornaro of Padua, 1467-1566, published 'Discorri della vita sobria . . .', a treatise on the means of living to extreme old age, describing the ascetic diet by which he had recovered health and vitality when in danger of death at the age of forty. Portrait by Tintoretto, Pitti Palace.) A carpet covers the floor. Through the window is seen the (unfinished) colonnade of Carlton House."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Companion print to: Temperance enjoying a frugal meal., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Gastronomy.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 2d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Gluttony, Obesity, Chamber pots, Eating & drinking, Medicines, Gambling, and Sconces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion [graphic]
44. A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [2 July 1792]
- Call Number:
- Print10042
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leans back in an arm-chair, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a single button across his distended stomach. On his right a circular table covered with the remains of a meal, with decanters of 'Port' and 'Brandy', a castor of 'Chian'. Under the table, partly covered by the cloth, are empty wine-bottles. Behind the chair (right) a brimming chamber-pot stands on a table or commode on which are long bills: 'Poulterers Bill . . . unpaid, Butcher's Bill . . . unpaid, Baker's Bill . . . unpaid', and (on the ground) 'Doctors Bill'. In the foreground (right) lie a dice-box and dice with three books: 'Debts of Honor Unpaid', 'Newmarket List', and 'Faro Partnership Account Self Archer Hobart & Co.' On a shelf behind the Prince (right) is a triple stand of jelly-glasses, among which is a small pot: 'For the Piles', and a bottle: 'Drops for a Stinking Breath'. Beside it are a box of 'Leakes Pills', and a bottle of 'Velnos Vegetable Syrup' (see BMSat 7592). On the wall above is a candle-sconce with a burlesque coat of arms for the Prince: a plate with a crossed knife and fork, with his motto, coronet, and feathers; one candle is stuck in a wine-bottle, the other in a wine-glass. Above the Prince's head is a round picture in an elaborate frame inscribed 'L. Comoro, Ætat. 199 [sic]': a half length portrait of a man with a long beard drinking from a glass inscribed 'Aqua'. (Luigi Cornaro of Padua, 1467-1566, published 'Discorri della vita sobria . . .', a treatise on the means of living to extreme old age, describing the ascetic diet by which he had recovered health and vitality when in danger of death at the age of forty. Portrait by Tintoretto, Pitti Palace.) A carpet covers the floor. Through the window is seen the (unfinished) colonnade of Carlton House."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Companion print to: Temperance enjoying a frugal meal., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Gastronomy., and 1 print : stipple engraving with etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 36.2 x 29.1 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 2d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic):
- Gluttony, Obesity, Chamber pots, Eating & drinking, Medicines, Gambling, and Sconces
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion [graphic]
45. Agamemnon a great general taken on the Steyne at Brighton / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1804]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 29. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A very obese man stands in profile to the right, his hands behind him with a meditative expression. He wears old-fashioned dress, with round, broad-brimmed hat, and buckled shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Leaf 29 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Agamemnon a great general taken on the Steyne at Brighton / [graphic]
