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5.
A French invasion on the fashionable dress of 1798 [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1798]
Call Number:
798.00.00.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bracelets, Courtship, Dogs, Dandies, French, Jewelry, Miniatures (Paintings), Obesity, Pendants (Jewelry), and Rings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A French invasion on the fashionable dress of 1798 [graphic]

6.
A North Britain's contrivance for the accommodation of his wife [graphic]

Creator:
Finucane, Mathias, active 1797-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 November 1797]
Call Number:
797.11.25.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Subject (Topic):
Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Coach drivers, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A North Britain's contrivance for the accommodation of his wife [graphic]

7.
A bawd on her last legs [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1784]
Call Number:
Print10028
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A bawd on her last legs [graphic]

8.
A coronation stool [graphic].

Creator:
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not before 19 July 1821]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H89 821 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 51. George Humphrey shop album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A coronation stool [graphic].

9.
A coronation stool, of repentance [graphic].

Creator:
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 19, 1821.
Call Number:
821.07.19.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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, with ...
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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A coronation stool, of repentance [graphic].

10.
A coronation stool, of repentance [graphic].

Creator:
Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker
Published / Created:
July 19, 1821.
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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, with ...
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
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A coronation stool, of repentance [graphic].

11.
A diver [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[6 April 1803]
Call Number:
Print00785
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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)
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A diver [graphic]

13.
A divine in his glory!! [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 28, 1799.
Call Number:
799.05.28.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fat parson sits on a settee with a young courtesan on each knee
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Courtesans, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A divine in his glory!! [graphic]

14.
A duet [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 May 1792]
Call Number:
792.05.14.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A short fat man (left) dressed as a military officer, clasps the inflated petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a hide...
Alternative Title:
"Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A duet [graphic].

15.
A duet [graphic].

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[14 May 1792]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Gillray v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A short fat man (left) dressed as a military officer, clasps the inflated petticoats of a thin woman who walks away from him, looking over her left shoulder, her hand raised in a negative gesture. She is much taller than her admirer, and shows a hide...
Alternative Title:
"Turn fair Clora, turn, ah cruel, turn again."
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 14th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Obesity
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A duet [graphic].

16.
A family piece [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1811]
Call Number:
Bunbury 811.12.15.03+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A portrait-painter painting a family group of a man and wife and their little boy. The group (right) is raised on a low semicircular platform, the couple sit on a high-backed settee without arms, the little boy on a stool in front of his mother. The ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' materials, Doves, Easels, Families, Group portraits, Obesity, Wigs, and Yawning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A family piece [graphic]

17.
A figure that appear'd in a Mazarine gown at the King of Denmarks masquerade ball [graphic]

Published / Created:
[not before 10 October 1768]
Call Number:
768.10.10.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Mr. Harley, with a very large belly and a shirt with lace trim, standing full-length in profile to right wearing on his head a cuckold's horns from which hangs a sign "A room to lett unfurnish'd". From his mouth a bubble reading, "I am one of the head...
Alternative Title:
Figure that appeared in a Mazarine gown
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Oxford Magazine
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Harley, Thomas, 1730-1804
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, City council members, Horns (Anatomy), Masquerades, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A figure that appear'd in a Mazarine gown at the King of Denmarks masquerade ball [graphic]

18.
A fishing party what great enjoyments rise 'from trivial things'". [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 June 1827]
Call Number:
827.06.27.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Pushed by Knighton and pulled by Lady Conyngham, George IV, more corpulent than in other prints, walks in an ornate circular stand or support on castors (as used for toddling children, cf. British Museum satires no. 7497) towards Virginia Water (righ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. June 27th, 1827, by S.W. Fores, Pciadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Knighton, William, Sir, 1776-1836, and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861
Subject (Topic):
Bonnets, Fishing & hunting gear, Mistresses, Obesity, Physicians, British, Pulling, Scepters, Medical equipment & supplies, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A fishing party what great enjoyments rise 'from trivial things'". [graphic]

19.
A friendly visit to the dramatic manufactory, or, Preparations for next season [graphic].

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[6 February 1804]
Call Number:
804.02.06.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Sheridan (l.) sits in an arm-chair at his writing-table, pen in hand. He slouches forward, peering at a large playbill in his left hand. 'Tom Hickathrift \ and the \ Giants \ a new Growlo Drama \ with \ Wittington \ and his \ Cat \ a Pur-letta \ in w...
Alternative Title:
Preparations for next season
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 6th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Dogs and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A friendly visit to the dramatic manufactory, or, Preparations for next season [graphic].

20.
A general view of Old England [graphic]

Creator:
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Published / Created:
[September 1808]
Call Number:
Quarto 75 D569 812
Collection Title:
Leaf 71. Characatures by Dighton.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly general rides a high-stepping horse in profile to the left, posed like an equestrian statue. He wears a high cocked hat with cockade and plume; his sword-belt is buckled over his sash, which girds a heavy paunch. In his right hand is a can...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
England, Richard, approximately 1750-1812
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Horses, and Obesity
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A general view of Old England [graphic]

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