The Macaroni. A real Character at the Late Masquerade

In the 1770s, the English term macaroni was used to describe young Francophile men who, after returning from their Grand Tour of Europe, behaved in a decidedly continental manner. The English bourgeois middle class was suspicious of this courtly affectation, a judgment reflected in numerous, often personalized caricatures. Dawe has not dispensed with any of Macaronis' characteristic features in hi…