George Robert Hay-Drummond, Viscount Dupplin — "Petrarch"

Leslie Ward ('Spy') presents the young Viscount Dupplin — Lieutenant of the 1st Life Guards and heir to the Earldom of Kinnoull — as a languid man-about-town: top hat, white gloves, cane, boutonnière, and tails cut with aristocratic nonchalance. The caption 'Petrarch' is a purely social joke, casting this cavalry officer as a lovelorn Renaissance poet — the kind of teasing literary nickname Vanity Fair's editors enjoyed pinning on fashionable young peers. The caricature's exaggeration is mild and affectionate: an elongated nose, a trim reddish beard, a slightly smug profile. Dupplin died in 1886 at thirty-six, before inheriting his father's earldom.