The poll, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain drawing
The scene is still the polling-booth, Covent Garden ; the canvassers, committees, and mobs are giving their entire attention to the performance carried on for their entertainment between the fair rival advocate... More
Madam Blubber's last shift, or the aerostatic dilly
This caricature pictures the hustings at Covent Garden, with a distant view of Richmond Hill. Madame Blubber has patriotically contrived to convert herself into an air-balloon, for the collection and conveyance... More
A sphere, projecting against a plane, James Gillray
Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt'... More
Modern hospitality, or a friendly party in high life, James Gillray
A scene at a faro-table. Part of the table, including an angle of the central well, stretches across the foreground and players and spectators sit and stand behind it. Lady Archer is the most prominent; she hol... More
Enter Cowslip, with a bowl of cream, James Gillray
An enormously fat lady stands in profile to the left, holding a bowl (resembling a punch-bowl), her left hand on her hip, holding up the frilled apron which drapes her quilted petticoat. She wears ringlets with... More