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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

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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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