Shepherds I have lost my waist!
£380.00
Richard Newton
Shepherds I have lost my waist!
London, W Holland Nov 12th 1794
Etching
Original hand colouring
320 x 250 mm
£380
Richard Newton
Shepherds I have lost my waist!
London, W Holland Nov 12th 1794
Etching
Original hand colouring
320 x 250 mm
£380
Front and back view of two ladies (or one lady) dressed identically. One (right) looks to the right at a round table on which are a jelly-glass and a tartlet, holding up a napkin in her left hand, the right behind her back. The other is behind her and on the left. She wears large ear-rings. The high-waisted dress has a flowing line with an overdress forming a train, and is thus less skimpy than others of the period. Two huge erect ostrich feathers decorate the head. Beneath the design are twelve lines of verse beginning:
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