James Patrick Mahon ('The O'Gorman Mahon'), Vanity Fair, 17 January 1885

Leslie Ward ('Spy') caricatures Colonel James Patrick Mahon—Irish nationalist MP, veteran soldier, and legendary adventurer—under the caption 'Mhagthamma,' an Irish-language rendering of his honorific 'The O'Gorman Mahon.' Ward stretches the Colonel's silhouette into a figure of strutting self-regard: outsized orange trousers, a black frock coat with a red rose boutonnière, and a tilted top hat above wild white hair and a full beard. He holds a pince-nez theatrically, paper tucked under one arm—the posture of a man perpetually mid-oration. The Irish-language caption is mildly satirical, nodding to Mahon's nationalist grandstanding while affectionately playing up his flamboyant, larger-than-life reputation in the House of Commons.