Well-a-day, Is this my Son Tom (ca. 1773), after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, published by Carrington Bowles. Other versions explicitly label the father as a farmer and give a more urban setting, showing it wasn't just travels abroad deemed to make a macaroni but also simply the influence of the city.

Featured on PDR in the essay A Queer Taste for Macaroni

With his enormous hair, painted face, and dainty attire, the so-called "macaroni" was a common sight upon the streets and ridiculing prints of 1770s London. Dominic Janes explores how with this new figure — and the scandalous sodomy trials with which the stereotype became entwined — a widespread discussion of same-sex desire first entered the public realm, long before the days of Oscar Wilde.