Title etched below image.

"Price one shilling coloured."

An obese man and a tall lean woman, symbolical figures of 'dropsy' and 'consumption', flirting outside a mausoleum; another couple promenade before a statue of Hercules in the background.

"A grotesquely obese man (his hat placed under his plump knees) kneels at the feet of an ugly and bedizened woman, fantastically lean and tall. She holds up a fan, and looks down alluringly at her lover to whom she gives her left hand. They are in the circular portico of a 'Mausoleum' (right). In the background is an avenue and a statue of Hercules, towards which a fat woman and a lean parson of the Dr. Syntax type are walking arm-in-arm. The muscular Hercules is contrasted with the four other types of physique represented."--British Museum online catalogue.

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11635

Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 193

Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Five hundred years of medicine in art, 37.6

Costume > Great Britain > 19th century.

Caricatures.

Satires (Visual works) - England - 1810.

Etchings - England - London - 1810.