File:A Mungo Macaroni (BM 1915,0313.174).jpg
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Title |
A Mungo Macaroni |
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Description |
English: No.14: A man of African descent, dressed as a macaroni, walks in profile to the right. His right hand holds a cane, his left is on the hilt of a short curved sword or sabre with an ornamental hilt affected by macaronis. 10 September 1772
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Depicted people | Representation of: Julius Soubise | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1772 date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1915,0313.174 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) It is been suggested that this print is a caricature of Jeremiah Dyson, always called Mungo after the name had been given him in a debate by Col. Barré, 29 Jan. 1769. Mungo was a black slave in the comic opera 'The Padlock' by Bickerstaffe, and the name implied that Dyson was kept at dirty jobs for the Government. He was a butt of the caricaturists, see BMSat 4267, &c., and index. Perhaps Soubise, see BMSat 5120, a caricature of whom was drawn by Angelo, 'Reminiscences', 1904, ii. 268. However, Darly's Mungo Macaroni is undoubtedly modeled on Julius Soubise (1754-1798), who was born enslaved on St. Kitts and later became the protégé of Catherine Hyde, Duchess of Queensbury (1701-1777) and friend of Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780). For commentary on a related print by William Austin (BM Satires 5120), see "Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain" (YCBA, 2014). For further discussion, see Temi Odumosu, "Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes, White Humour" (Harvey Miller) 2017, chapter 1, "The Overdressed Slave: Servants, Pets and 'Mungo' Macaronis", pp. 49-97. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1915-0313-174 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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