print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,5.42
- Title
- Object: The Macaroni, a real character at the late masquerade
- Description
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A macaroni dressed in a grotesque exaggeration of the prevailing fashion. His hair is in a high pyramid with side curls, an enormous club hangs down his back. A small three-cornered hat is perched on the top of his hair. He wears a large nosegay. He stands in a mincing attitude by a toilet-table, draped with muslin on which are boxes and toilet jars, the latter inscribed "essence" and "Rose". The wall is panelled and ornamented with mouldings; the floor is carpeted and there are two cane-seated chairs of an unusual pattern [This probably represents the dress of 'Lord P-----' as a macaroni buck at the Pantheon masquerade of 12 May 1773. See 'Oxford Magazine', x. p. 179, where his dress is described]. 3 July 1773
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1773
- Dimensions
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Height: 351 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
Proof before letters on which is written "Pantheon Macaroni". The title and publication line are supplied from an impression belonging to Mr. W. T. Spencer of New Oxford Street. Reproduced, Paston, Pl. xx; J.T.Smith, 'A Book for a Rainy Day', ed. W. Whitten, 1905, p.265.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1983 July-Oct, London, Museum of London, 'Masquerades'
2002 Jan-March, Newcastle, Hatton Gall, Followers of Fashion
2002 June-July, Belfast, Ulster Mus, Followers of Fashion
2002 Aug-Sep, Nottingham, Djanogly AG, Followers of Fashion
2002/3 Dec-Feb, Brighton MAG, Followers of Fashion
2003 April-June, Braintree District Mus, Followers of Fashion
2010 June-Sep, London, Tate Britain, Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,5.42
