Obesity posters & prints

The alderman's dinner Anonymous

Taunting Smoke from a Pipe, 1823 Thomas Rowlandson

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

Gluttons, c.1800-05 Thomas Rowlandson

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

Portrait of an Obese Gentleman attributed to Charles Mellin Anonymous

A Fat Man and a Wheelbarrow Hans Weiditz

Captain Francis Grose By Himself Francis Grose

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

Gloucestershire Old Spot James Ward

Catching an elephant Anonymous

The Comforts of Bath: Gouty Gourmand at Dinner Thomas Rowlandson

Praetor-Urbanus James Gillray

The Fat Bishop School English

Praetor-Urbanus Anonymous

A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion, published in 1792 English School

A Peep at Christies or Tally Ho Anonymous

Starving poet and publisher Thomas Rowlandson

The Macaroni, 1774 Samuel Hieronymous Grimm

Daniel Lambert English School

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

Just looking out for somthing [sic] to stay my stomach till dinner time William Heath

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

In a Restaurant, 1914 Vladimir Egorovic Makovsky

Bathroom Scale, A Family Necessity Anonymous

A peep at Christies or Tally ho, and his nimeney-pimmeney taking the morning lounge James Gillray

A corporate body under the operation of the Royal Commission Anonymous

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

A Little Bigger, 1791. Thomas Rowlandson

Pantagruel's meal Gustave Dore

A portly gentleman looking through a telescope Anonymous

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

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

A midwife going to a labour, 1811 Thomas Rowlandson

Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream Anonymous