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.