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The burthens of plenty
Description
English: An enormously fat man walks (left to right.) towards an eating-house followed by a lean and ragged man bent with the weight of a basket laden with food which he carries on his head and shoulders. The fat man is walking with a wheelbarrow, which he uses to support his enormously projecting stomach; the barrow is partly supported by straps which go over his shoulders and across his stomach. He mops his forehead with his left hand. He wears a tie-wig, a laced coat and waistcoat, and is evidently intended for a rich and vulgar citizen. His porter is dressed in rags, with bare legs and toes projecting through his shoes; he carries one wine-bottle in his right hand, two more under his right arm; his basket, supported on a large pad or cushion, contains a turtle, a hare, two snipe, a haunch of venison (?), and three bottles. The fat man is about to enter a door over which is a sign, "Good eating & cool rooms". This hangs from a projecting beam with pulleys; from it three barrels are also hung as a sign. Over the door is inscribed "Wines". Behind the ragged man is a row of tenement houses, whose nature is indicated by the nearest one. A ladder leads down to its cellar over the door of which is written "Dinners & shirt wash'd for 2 pence". Above the first-floor window is a large notice, "Shafe & Cut hear"; from it projects a barber's pole. Above the second-floor window is "I. Nabbem Taylor." 24 February 1777
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Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 228 millimetres
Width: 322 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1877,1013.872
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

The theme of a fat man supporting his own stomach on a wheelbarrow is an old one; it is that of a German caricature of a 'weinschlauch', a wood engraving of 1510, reproduced B. Lynch, 'A History of Caricature', 1926, Pl. vi; also of Luther (followed by Katarina von Bora), reproduced Ashbee, 'Caricature', 1928, p. 40; of a French caricature of General Galas, c. 1635, illustrated in Wright's 'History of Caricature and Grotesque', 1865, p. 356.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1877-1013-872
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