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.

Thomas Dewhurst Jennings, seated on two dining chairs. Photograph, 1884.

Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

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.

396 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm

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

1 print : etching ; platemark 17.8 x 12.6 cm

A tall thin man facing a short stout woman. Etching by F. Grose.

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 27.5 x 20.9 cm

1 print : engraving ; platemark 19.2 x 15 cm

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

Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.

A tall thin man facing a short stout woman. Etching by F. Grose.

Thomas Dewhurst Jennings, seated on two dining chairs. Photograph, 1884.

Three men in uniform with swords take their morning walk: Cambacérès, d'Aigrefeuille and La Vieuville. Coloured engraving, ca. 1815.

Overweight persons

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

Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.

A tall thin man facing a short stout woman. Etching by F. Grose.

Thomas Dewhurst Jennings, seated on two dining chairs. Photograph, 1884.

Three men in uniform with swords take their morning walk: Cambacérès, d'Aigrefeuille and La Vieuville. Coloured engraving, ca. 1815.

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