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  • Daniel Lambert contrasted with a thin woman seated on his knee. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • [Leaflet (27 December 1872?) advertising an appearance of "the gigantic mother and daughter" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neill is the daughter (also known as Ann O'Neal in other publications) at Whiteley's Unrivalled Exhibition of Living Wonders (15 Tichborne Street, Haymarket, London). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat. Also appearing is Mr. Jackson, the "smallest man in the world"].
  • A grossly obese man supporting his stomach in a wheelbarrow, a young fop looks on. Etching by S. Ireland, 178-, after J.H. Mortimer.
  • A humorous comparison between the obese Daniel Lambert and Charles James Fox, the politician. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1806.
  • Remarkable characters : [Daniel Lambert].
  • Under the patronage of the Royal Family : now exhibiting at the Cosmorama, Regent St., Mrs. Eliz. Armitage, the most beautiful and extraordinary lady in Europe!!.
  • A man remarking to his friend, while out hunting, that he has put on weight; the other replies he is simply following doctor's orders. Wood engraving by G.D. Armour, 1899.
  • A physician reeling with surprise at an obese elderly man's pulse, the patient is grinning at a woman who approaches him with a tray full of food and wine. Photogravure after J.G. Vibert.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Mezzotint by Jones after D. Ogbourne.
  • John Love, a very large man. Line engraving.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Miss Rosie : weight 36 stone.
  • An infant giant. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • The great American Prize Lady Miss C. Heenan with her four prize presentation cups : now exhibiting for a short time only at 122, Fleet St, London.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Four men sit round a tax collector and blow smoke in his face. Coloured aquatint,by J.C. Ziegler, 1799, after R. Newton.
  • [Undated Victorian handbill advertising Mrs. E. Farmer, of Wantage, Berkshire, "the largest woman in existence" weighing 24 stone, on exhibition at 194 The Strand, London].
  • The greatest wonder of the world, now exhibiting facing the cattle show, 29, King Street, Portman Square : William Ball, alias John Bull, the English Hercules, weighing over forty stone! Born at Herschay, Shropshire, July 8 1795 ...
  • An obese woman walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Four Georgian gentlemen at their club seriously engaged in smoking. Stipple print by H. Bunbury, c. 1794.
  • Letter on corpulence / addressed to the public by William Banting.
  • Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Jacob Powell, who died weighing almost 40 stone. Line engraving by A. Walker.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Birth extraordinary! Patronized by royalty : Just arrived Hartley's unequalled exhibition : To be seen alive in a commodious caravan, in Broadwall, opposite the Mitre, New Cut, Lambeth : Mast. Daniel Hartley, the great Goliah of the day, or the wonder of the age ... the above youth is accompanied and contrasted by The Devonshire Dwarf! Mr Thomas Bartlett, or the man in miniature.