St. Georges Fields, or the posts not wide enough for fatty, Robert Dighton, 1782

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. Dimensions: Height: 189 mm; Width: 238 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. St. Georges Fields, or the posts not wide enough for fatty (BM J,5.10)