Obesity posters & prints

Portrait of an Obese Gentleman attributed to Charles Mellin Anonymous

Captain Francis Grose By Himself Francis Grose

The Englishman in Paris, lithograph by James Caldwell, 1770 John Collet

Gloucestershire Old Spot James Ward

Taunting Smoke from a Pipe, 1823 Thomas Rowlandson

A Fat Man and a Wheelbarrow Hans Weiditz

Gluttons, c.1800-05 Thomas Rowlandson

In a Restaurant, 1914 Vladimir Egorovic Makovsky

Praetor-Urbanus Anonymous

Frontispiece to 'Memoirs of a Stomach' by The Minister for the Interior, 1850 English School

The Fat Bishop School English

A whist-er at Boodles - or a choice peice [sic] of double milled Yorkshire broad cloth Isaac Cruikshank

The Comforts of Bath: Gouty Gourmand at Dinner Thomas Rowlandson

Female figurine known as the Venus of Willendorf, side view detail of torso, Gravettian culture, Upper Palaeolithic Period, c.30000-18000 BC Paleolithic Paleolithic

Slender Billy, Travellers taking refreshment Thomas Rowlandson

Starving poet and publisher Thomas Rowlandson

The Macaroni, 1774 Samuel Hieronymous Grimm

The Stomach of the Legislature, the Ministerial Benches of 1834 Honore Daumier

Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker Bartholomeus van der Helst

A midwife going to a labour, 1811 Thomas Rowlandson

Daniel Lambert English School

Sketch depicting Napoleon I and the sovereigns at the ball given by the city of Paris on 4th December 1809 Adrien Pierre Francois Godefroy

The Drunken Silenus, c.1617-18 Peter Paul Rubens

Francis Grose, the Antiquarian English School

Eugenia Martinez Vallejo, called La Monstrua Don Juan Carreno de Miranda

Falstaff at Herne's Oak James Stephanoff

Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream Anonymous

Pantagruel's meal Gustave Dore

Bust of Hippolyte Abraham, known as Abraham-Dubois 1833 Honore Daumier

Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society, London George Cruikshank

The Fall of the Damned Peter Paul Rubens

St George's Fields, Southwark, London Anonymous

Results of the northern excursion George Cruikshank

Portrait of a Man, 17th century Jacob Jordaens

Entrance Gate, British Museum, Holborn, London Alexander O'Driscoll

Mayhew's Great Exhibition of 1851: Odds and Ends, in, out, and about, 1851 George Cruikshank