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.

Date:
Feby 24 1777
Reference:
32795i
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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. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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At the lower side of a slope, subject to flooding, are poor lodging houses, while on the upper side is the restaurant. It is not evident why the fat man needs his porter to carry a basket of food to the restaurant, unless the implication is that he is going to finish off the restaurant's stock of food

Publication/Creation

London (59 Strand) : M. Darly, Feby 24 1777.

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 21 x 32.3 cm

Lettering

The burthens of plenty. On the left, a basement shop has the sign "Dinners & shirt wash'd for 2 pence", a barber's on the first floor has barber's pole and "Shafe & cut hear", and a tailor's on the top floor "I. Nabbem taylor." The signboard on the restaurant to which the fat man is going reads "Good eating & cool rooms"; over the door is "Wines".

Reference

Wellcome Collection 32795i

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Bears indistinct monograms: lower left, possibly HR; lower right, JT

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