The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label Original: watercolour on paper

Original: watercolour on paper

'The Setting out of the Train Bands from London to raise the Siege of Gloucester'

Brook Street

by a Society of Gardeners (1730) the lower figure of plate 6 under the variant title 'Caprifolium Germanicum Dutch Honey-suckle

The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label Original: watercolour on paper'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).