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Daniel Lambert

English gaol keeper and animal breeder, famous for his unusually large size

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Images featuring Daniel Lambert

25 images from works
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing over fifty stone, aged 36. Coloured etching.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Separate portraits of Daniel Lambert and Edward Bright, 50 stone and 44 stone respectively. Engraving, 1806.
  • Daniel Lambert was born at Leicester on the 13th March, 1770 ...
  • Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Engraving, 1809.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Etching by A. van Assen, 1804, after J. Parry.
  • Extraordinary exhibition : Cosmorama Rooms, 290, Regent Street : The greatest lady in the world! A rival to the celebrated Daniel Lambert. This phenomen is now exhibiting each day, from 11 1-2 till 5-and 7 till 9 o'clock : Mrs. Elizabeth Armitage of the extraordinary weight of 31 stone 11 lbs. or, 445 pounds ... / Cosmorama Rooms.

Works from the collections

16 works

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Daniel Lambert was born at Leicester on the 13th March, 1770 ...

    | Date: [between 1810 and 1850?]
    • Pictures
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    Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.

    | Date: 1 July 1821 | Reference: 860i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Engraving, 1809.

    | Date: 1 August 1809 | Reference: 859i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 574786i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Another Daniel Lambert! : now exhibiting at 6, Leicester Square, Mr. Mansfield, of Debden, Essex, the most wonderful man ever known ... weighing 469lbs.! Circumference, 97 inches!!!.

    | Date: [between 1810 and 1850?]

Related topics

Obesity
Strong men
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Obesity
Funeral rites and ceremonies
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