Middle Temple Macaroni mb-height 3667 'Hot Bak'd Wardens Hot'

'Hot Bak'd Wardens Hot'

View of East India House

In the middle distance a man stands behind another man and distracts him by tickling his ear

with a yoke balanced across her shoulders and a pail of milk by her feet

whilst holding out a smaller basket to passers by

Middle Temple Macaroni mb-height 3667 'Hot Bak'd Wardens Hot''Middle Temple Macaroni', c1772; showing a young man ( possibly an actor), with sword and in macaroni garb, standing in profile. The quotation underneath, In short I am a West Indian was based on a play by Richard Cumberland. A macaroni was an eighteenth century dandy who affected continental fashions.