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  • Statuette of a naked boy standing on a corbel, commemorating the Great Fire of London, 1666. Etching on a mezzotint ground by J. T. Smith after himself, 1791.
  • Benjamin Marriot, a man who ate vast amounts of food. Coloured engraving.
  • Benjamin Marriot, a man who ate vast amounts of food. Coloured engraving.
  • Benjamin Marriot, a man who ate vast amounts of food. Coloured engraving.
  • The clyster is prepared for a glutton. Colour line engraving by J.J. Leveau after himself, 1762.
  • A corpulent gentleman with indigestion. Line engraving, c. 18th century.
  • A wealthy man at his dinner table is offered a clyster by a servant. Lithograph by Tal-Zar.
  • A gouty man savouring his feast. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after E.Y.
  • The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
  • Surrounded by ghoulish apparitions, a manic priest carries an enema towards a wretchedly praying man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, c. 1797.

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