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The 18th century power paunch
Behind the scenes
There are websites for everything. Here's a recent discovery by a colleague, a site to which we could make a nice contribution or two ourselves – I mean from the collection.
Paunch wallpaper
Click here.
And for a little more detail and background, click here. What's interesting here is the thought the numerous portraitists and sitters have not in any way attempted to hide this particular phenomenon (most gentlemen sitting for a portrait today - at least for the camera - would be attempting to transfer this volume to their upper half)... Instead the eighteenth century paunch seems an accomplishment, an achievement to celebrate...