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The Original Macaroni   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Original Macaroni
Description
English: No.8: Caricature portrait, whole length, of a man in profile walking to the right. grotesquely dressed, probably for a masquerade. In his right hand he holds a rod to each end of which is slung a fox's tail. A large fox's tail hangs from the back of his neck. A bell hangs outwards from the back of his waist. A ribbon flutters from his right arm. He wears a small cap with a tuft of feathers at the top. Rows of feathers (quills) or ribbons hang from his cap, his waist, and from the tops of his stockings which leave his knees bare. Above is inscribed "Tom Fool the First". 20 May 1772
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Depicted people Representation of: Charles James Fox
Date 1772
date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 176 millimetres
Width: 123 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1915,0313.143
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) At the masquerades (c. 1772) groups of young men from the universities, some dressed as "Tom fools with cap and bells", were conspicuous. Walpole, 'Last Journals', 1910, I. 85 n. Evidently intended for C. J. Fox, a leader of fashion and already a favourite subject of caricature. See "The senatorial Macaroni or Memoirs of a Young Cub' in 'The Macaroni and Theatrical Mag.' Jan. 1773, with a plate, BMSat 4810, and for Fox as the leader of the macaronies, see BMSat 4962. Cf. 'The Senators', 1772, p. 13 (see BMSat 4970):

"By turns solicited by different plans, Yet fix'd to none, Fox dresses, games, harangues: Where varying fashion leads the sportive band, And whim and folly bound it hand in hand, Behold him ambling through these flow'ry ways

A model macaroni, 'A l'Angloise'."
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1915-0313-143
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