Fat Collection (page 15)

The Duke Who Was Fat. From Once Upon a Time no. 40

Balzac / Vogel Drawing
HONORE DE BALZAC French novelist in a drawing of 1815 Date: 1799 - 1850

Satirical ballooning cartoon, Lord Grenville
He Steers His Flight. Satirical cartoon on the subject of Lord Grenvilles installation as Chancellor of Oxford University

Oh, hell! Nobody loves a fat man!. Illustration shows President Taft as a cowboy sitting alone next to a campfire and a chuck wagon labeled Stand-Pat or Bust. Date 1910 May 18

Get fat on Lorings Fat-ten-u and corpula foods. Advertisement showing young woman with package of Lorings Fat-Ten-U food tablets and package of Lorings Corpula, a fat-producting food. Date c1895

High school horse and his owner-trainer at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas. Date 1940 Mar

Amusing hunting scene of a corpulent hunter riding an exhausted donkey, whilst he is stalked by a stag and (rather oddly, as if this card could get odder...) a black pig! A Russian postcard

Man buying flowers from street seller
Silhouette of a plump man buying flowers from a street seller

Silhouette, The Fat is in the Fire
The Fat is in the Fire -- silhouette of a conflagration

Royal wedding 1893 - the bride and groom
The parents of the bride and groom at home; King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (at the time, Prince and Princess of Wales)

Twelve proverbial silhouettes given a literal depiction: the fat is in the fire, to have a finger in the pie, sending coals to Newcastle, one sows and another reaps

Viennese Resraurant
Owing to the high price of electricity in Vienna, Austria, consumers have gone on stike, dining out in restaurants with candles burning from bottles! Date: 1933

Tycoon on his yacht - Making for Port
Yachting Terms illustrated: Making for Port. A rich tycoon on the high seas reaching across the moving table for the decanter of port with a total lack of success! Date: 1908

Comparison of height and girth
A small squat, bald and rather rotund Italian gentleman, complains to his slender and tall friend about the disparity in their physicality! Date: 1917

Little fat goblin stealing cabbages
A little fat goblin stealing cabbages, much to the distress of the farmer. first published 1879

Spanish Money Lender
Thwe fiadora or female money lender, is a familiar figure in the poorer districts of Madrid, Spain. Date: 1930s

Drinks Trick
A fat, bald geezer demonstrates a drinks trick to a group of rather bemused men! Date: 1930s

Virgin Islanders
A jolly-looking middle aged couple of West Indian Virgin Islanders at the market on Tortola, Virgin Islands, West Indies. Date: late 1960s

Pangbourne Smithy
The lovely old smithy (blacksmiths) at Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. Note the nice fat chimney! Date: 1930s

To Market, To Market, To Buy a Fat Pig Date: circa 1918

Two men on a street, one tall and slim, the other short and plump. Horace asks: Got such a thing as a spare fiver on you, old chap? The reply is unprintable. circa 1916

Coming from Lipton s... Going to Lipton s
An ingenious advertisement designed by Sir Thomas Lipton to attract customers to his shop

Information poster, essential foods
Information poster giving details of essential foods needed during wartime rationing. 1940s

Sketch of a sow with piglets feeding

Slimmer Extraordinaire! Before & After
Before & After - the remarkable results of going on a diet and how it affects ones choice of corset.... circa 1909

Wesson Salad Oil Advert
Wesson Oil for salads and cooking - pure delicious vegetable fat Date: 1920

Female Type Well Rounded
A well-rounded countrywoman in a bright orange flowery dress. Date: 1913

Poe / Tales / Hop Frog
HOP-FROG Tripetta pleads for Hop-Frog. Date: First published: 1850

Admirer 1884

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Fat man - pig
Piggish. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a man who eats too much, from a pig. This old glutton, fond of good eating is a natural descendant of the pig

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Courting man - frog
He would a-wooing go. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a rotund man, from a frog. Middle aged

British in Mexico, 1914
Front cover of the Illustrated London News showing members of the British colony in Mexico city preparing to defend themselves in anticipation of unrest in the capital

The Pluralist, aided by his patron
A satirical comment on the rise of religious pluralism in the mid 19th century

Whitewashed Georgian house in Mid or South Wales
A whitewashed Georgian house in Mid or South Wales, with a plump man and a skinny boy standing in front of the entrance

Seal in water with its mouth open
A seal in water with its mouth open, probably at a zoo

Locating mirrors for golfers / W H Robinson
With the simplicity of genius, this apparatus allows swift and sure location of a golf ball beneath the obstacle of a mans expanding midriff, by use of mirrors

The Man of the Moment by George Ranstead
The Man of the Moment, a local grocer, is depicted wearing expensive clothes and smoking a fat cigar. Shopkeepers were often accused of profiteering during the Great War and were frequently satirised

A Pressing Engagement
Gentleman demonstrating a simple device for the correction of neglected figures in time for the dancing season. Illustration by William Heath Robinson

Cars To Suit All Figures / W H Robinson
Fat cars, thin cars, cars to suit all. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

The Occupation of Egypt
A humouous postcard entitled The Occupation of Egypt - depicting two Egyptian men supporting a very rotund woman as she takes a ride on a donkey to see the Pyramids

Rotund magician about to perform a trick for a crowd
Copy of illustration, " Escamoteur!" showing rotund magician about to perform a trick for a crowd (Imp. Chez Albert and Cie), February 1848. HPG/8/2/1 ()"

Near Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Greek Hotel Owner
The corpulent and magnificent Greek Hotel proprietor of the Hotel Ephesus at the village of Seljuk close to Smyrna (Izmir), Monsieur Carpouzas

Grave of a pet dog
The grave and headstone of a pet dog named Dick, who departed this life on 25 January 1907 at the age of eight. He was fed on milk and fish, and was very fat

Humourous Russian postcard
Laughing at the Fat Pig - a humourous Russian postcard poking fun at a rotund Russian farmer (possibly having had a vodka too many) who has fallen asleep in the pig sty

Chamberlain and the proposed corn tax
A satire on Joseph Chamberlains speech at Bingley Hall, where he produced two loaves (here babies, farmers and tea cups) to illustrate the impact of the proposed corn tax on the size of a loaf

Rosie Dolly and Mortimer Davis
Rosie Dolly (1892-1970) one half of the famous performing American identical twins, The Dolly Sisters, with Mortimer Davis Jnr, known as The Fat Boy

An Astronomical Note
A Second Eclipse of the Sun. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Lear / Nonsense / Kamschatka
There was an Old Man of Kamschatka, who possessed a remarkable fat cur; His gait and his waddle, were held as a model, to all the fat dogs in Kamschatka

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