Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-height 7002 with figures watching the parade

with figures watching the parade from the building on the left

Pringle House

He claimed the territiories he discovered for Spain

This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name in which Punch puts forward the view that an artisan of the future must needs learn a craft and develop skills that will stand him in good stead

'The Pall Mall Apollo or R-ty in a blaze'

Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-height 7002 with figures watching the parade'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).