The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label in a more natural drawing

in a more natural drawing position

Brook Street

Original: watercolour on paper

Lu Yueh opens plague-disseminating umbrellas while Yang Jen waves magic fan reducing umbrellas to dust and burns a fort

The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label in a more natural drawing'The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture', 1770. The painter Richard Cosway paints a 'macaroni' or dandy in this satire on exaggerated fashions of the day. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).