Obesity.- Haid (Johann Jakob) Mr Edwd. Bright late of Malden in Essex, after David Ogborne, mezzotint and engraving, on laid paper with large 18th century armorial watermark, 410 x 295 mm (16 1/8 x 11 1/2 in), trimmed to or just within the platemark, old folds and handling creases, minor surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1750]; together with 7 other portraits of Edward Bright, including two variant impressions of Carington Bowles portrait, one with faint hand-colouring, John Fairburn's double sheet with portrait and descriptive text for Bright and Daniel Lambert, and four small prints of Bright, engravings, various sizes between 205 x 120 mm (8 x 4 3/4 in) and 335 x 435 mm (13 1/8 x 17 in), handling creases, minor surface dirt, slightly rough edges, unframed, 1750 or slightly later (8)
⁂ Edward Bright (1721–1750) was a grocer in Maldon, Essex, England, known as the "fat man of Maldon", who was reputed at the time of his death in 1750 to be the "fattest man in England".
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