13 results filtered with: Overweight persons
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Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 19 December 1829Reference: 12084i- Pictures
A tall thin man facing a short stout woman. Etching by F. Grose.
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.Date: [1788]Reference: 747988i
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Thomas Dewhurst Jennings, seated on two dining chairs. Photograph, 1884.
Date: 1884Reference: 566104i
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Three men in uniform with swords take their morning walk: Cambacérès, d'Aigrefeuille and La Vieuville. Coloured engraving, ca. 1815.
Date: [1815?]Reference: 32789i- Pictures
Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1885?])Reference: 38989i- Books
The (other) F word : a celebration of the fat & fierce / edited by Angie Manfredi.
Date: [2019]
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Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, 1810.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 15 of Nov. [1810]Reference: 33012i- Ephemera
"At the top of the tree" / Page Woodcock.
Page Woodcock (Firm)Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
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A doctor serving in the French Garde Nationale (reserves) feeling the pulse of a frail old man who is seated in an armchair wearing a saucepan on his head. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard), 1865.
Draner, 1833-1926.Date: [1865]Reference: 24269iPart of: Types militaires- Pictures
A thin man holding a muff faces a fat man holding a cane. Etching by F. Grose.
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.Date: [1788]Reference: 747989i- Books
Fat : the secret organ : the surprising science behind the most misunderstood part of the body / Mari︠tte Boon & Liesbeth van Rossum ; translated from the Dutch by Colleen Higgins.
Boon, MariëtteDate: 2020
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[Newspaper cutting about a 40 stone man, William Ball, known as John Bull who worked for the Colebrook-dale company of ironmasters. ].
Date: date of publication not identified
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A fat man who carries his stomach on a wheelbarrow is followed to a restaurant by a poor, thin man carrying a basket of food on his head. Etching, 1777.
Date: Feby 24 1777Reference: 32795i