Satire on macaronies in two scenes on one plate: on the left, a macaroni smiling standing at a table leaning on a copy of "[We]ber &amp; Hoyle"; a copy of "[Memoirs of a] Woman of Pleasure" lies on the table together with a pack of cards; a copy of "Harris['s] List" is seen in a book case; on the floor is a dice box and two dice and on the wall a picture of a race horse and jockey; on the right, a skeleton leans against a funerary monument in an attitude of exaggerated despair, a spade in his hand; the inscription on the monument reads, "Here lies Interr'd Dicky Daffodil, who in a fit of Despair on a run of ill luck swallowed the Die which lodging on his heart, brought on the bone fever &amp; a Mortification, it was maliciously reported that he fell on the points of C. Hayes's scizzars, &amp; not by those of the Fates./Mores Janua Vitae".  1 December 1773
<br>Etching with hand-colouring
1773<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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