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| Keywords: A-voluptuary.jpg A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion Js Gy design et fecit SUMMARY Caricature of George IV as the Prince of Wales languid with repletion leaning back in an arm-chair at a table covered with remains of a meal holding a fork to his mouth His waistcoat is held together by a single button across his distended stomach In the background the Prince of Wales' three ostrich feathers emblem is shown above a knife and fork crossed on a plate instead of a coat of arms The picture behind and above the Prince's head is of Luigi Cornaro a Venetian nobleman who wrote several treatises concerning dieting and eating habits MEDIUM 1 print engraving color CREATED/PUBLISHED London Pubd by H Humphrey 1792 July 2d According to Wright Evans Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray 1851 OCLC 59510372 p 47 A bitter satire on the Heir to the Throne who was at this time celebrated for his voluptuousness and for the pecuniary difficulties in which he was constantly involved in consequence of his expensive habits The picture is full of allusions which tell their own story Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-3142 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g03000/3g03100/3g03142u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 4 MB level color pick white and black points cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1792-07-02 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication Image Gillray Voluptuary 051126 jpg LOC-image cph 3g03142 PD-old-100 James Gillray Gunning caricatures Caricatures of the United Kingdom Caricatures of George IV of the United Kingdom Eating in art Fat people in art Trousers in art Waistcoats in art Breeches in art Challenges to physical balance Sitting people in art Men facing left in art 1792 cartoons 1790s political cartoons | ||||
