Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-code 42-63234176 2nd February 1978

2nd February 1978

'Thames Warehouse'

His top hat

Plate 12 from the Croonian Lecture paper 'On the anatomical structure of the eye

was captured by the British army commanded by the Duke of Wellington in 1799

Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-code 42-63234176 2nd February 1978'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).