Frontispiece (folding plate) to 'An Appendix to the Vauxhall Affray or Macaronies Defeated . . . 1773'. Three macaronies chained together stand on the top of an altar from which rise flames and smoke, the result of a fire lit within the altar, which is being stoked by a nude man. The altar stands outside a temple with Ionic pilasters whose pediment, partly visible on the right., is inscribed "Temp, of Virtue". The 'sacrifice' is being directed by Parson Bate (afterwards Sir Henry Bate Dudley) who stands on the right., in profile to the left., pointing to the macaronies with an outstretched pen. His left hand rests on a club of Hercules. He is saying: "This incense shall revive degraded Manhood". The stoker asks him: "Master! is it hot enough now?" The three macaronies, who are small and effeminate, say: "I owe this infamy to you two; If I had been advised by Mother D------n I had not got in this damned Scrape; and, touching a locket which he wears, Oh! Save my Miniature Picture." 1773
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