Title

'Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?...', 1795. Artist: Richard Newton

Caption

'Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body? Sacrificed to modern taste, I'm quite a hoddy doddy!'', 1795. A satire on the unflattering fashions of the day. A hoddy doddy meant all arse and no body; a short clumsy person. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).
The Print Collector collection

Date

Nov 30, 1999

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C24_446

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (4,1Mb) / 13,3in x 14,6in / 3982 x 4386 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people fashion body British headdress feathers feather bottom dress century Britain waist waistline taste ass lady B&W headgear MONOCHROME metaphor Fashion Victim ostrich feather black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century arse The Print Collector the body George dumpy hoddy doddy ostrich feathers George Paston Paston Symonds Emily Morse Emily Morse Symonds Richard Newton Newton Richard George Paston