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St. Georges Fields, or the posts not wide enough for fatty   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Sayer & Bennett
Title
St. Georges Fields, or the posts not wide enough for fatty
Description
English: A very fat woman is squeezing with difficulty between posts through which goes a foot-path. She is being helped through by two men companions, one of whom pulls her, the other (left) pushes her from behind with his closed umbrella. All are dressed in the fashion of the day. Behind them is a board, extending over a gateway in a paling, inscribed "Half Way House Cottrell, From Old Slaughters Coffee House, dealer in Foreign Spirituos Liquors. Dinners Drest on the shortest Notice". Behind are trees, through which appears the "Half-way House". 21 September 1782
Etching and engraving
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 189 millimetres
Width: 238 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.10
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) This is evidently the Half-way House from the Borough to Westminster Bridge, which was immediately south of the Restoration Spring Garden in St. George's Fields, at one time rival of the neighbouring Dog & Duck. W. Wroth, 'The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century', 1896, p. 264.

A mezzotint of a similar subject, evidently imitated from this, called 'Labour in Vain - or Fatty in Distress', is BMSat 591 in Carington Bowles's series of mezzotints, [c. 1786.]
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-10
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