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Overweight persons

Images

  • Three men in uniform with swords take their morning walk: Cambacérès, d'Aigrefeuille and La Vieuville. Coloured engraving, ca. 1815.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • [Newspaper cutting about a 40 stone man, William Ball, known as John Bull who worked for the Colebrook-dale company of ironmasters. ].
  • Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The body hoax : how to stop believing in fantasy bodies / Emi Howe.

    Howe, Emi | Date: 2021
    • Books

    On fatphobia and dating : and how you're probably still a jerk / by Fat Kitty Rising.

    Fat Kitty Rising | Date: [2016]
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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 1829 | Reference: 12084i
    • Books

    Fat gay men : girth, mirth, and the politics of stigma / Jason Whitesel.

    Whitesel, Jason | Date: [2014]
    • Books

    The economics of obesity / edited by Kristian Bolin, John Cawley.

    | Date: 2007
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