US$ 49.00
His top hat
was captured by the British army commanded by the Duke of Wellington in 1799
'Thames Warehouse'
1433x1214mm
Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-code 42-63234176 His top hat'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).