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The Middle Temple Macaroni. In short I am a West Indian! Cumberland   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
The Middle Temple Macaroni. In short I am a West Indian! Cumberland
Description
English: A standing man with elaborate wig, small sword and arm outstretched; a plate from 'The Macaroni Scavoir Vivre and Theatrical Magazine', July 1773, facing p.504.
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Date 1773
date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 173 millimetres
Width: 108 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1855,0609.1923
Notes

The illustration is referred to on p.511 of the Macaroni Magazine where Richard Cumberland's comedy "The West Indian" (1771) is condemned for libertinism. One of those influenced by the principal character, Belcour, is said to have been "The Middle Temple Macaroni" who "attempts to unite the wit and licentiousness of the Templar with the giddiness and profusion of the West Indion, and the idiot foppery of the Macaroni". Belcour speaks the words, "In short, I am a West Indian" in Act III, Sc.7 of the play.

Stephens suggests that the man shown in the print is a "man of fashion" named D[a]cre of Middle Temple whose appearance at a masquerade at the Pantheon was recorded in the Town and Country Magazine, 1772, pp.236 and 239.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1855-0609-1923
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