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  • Three men in uniform with swords take their morning walk: Cambacérès, d'Aigrefeuille and La Vieuville. Coloured engraving, ca. 1815.
  • A fat man who is supports his stomach on a wheelbarrow is followed to a restaurant by a poor, thin man carrying a basket of food on his head. Etching, 1777.
  • Lord Grenville, Prime Minister and leader of the Broad Bottoms faction, meets Sarah Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus": on account of their similar body-mass, a dynastic marriage is considered. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, 1810.
  • [Newspaper cutting about a 40 stone man, William Ball, known as John Bull who worked for the Colebrook-dale company of ironmasters. ].
  • Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, eating and drinking to excess. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • [Newspaper cutting about a 40 stone man, William Ball, known as John Bull who worked for the Colebrook-dale company of ironmasters. ].
  • Three men in uniform with swords take their morning walk: Cambacérès, d'Aigrefeuille and La Vieuville. Coloured engraving, ca. 1815.
  • Thomas Dewhurst Jennings, seated on two dining chairs. Photograph, 1884.
  • Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
  • A doctor serving in the French Garde Nationale (reserves) feeling the pulse of a frail old man who is seated in an armchair wearing a saucepan on his head. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard), 1865.