The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label c200 AD (1956)

c200 AD (1956)

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

with figures and horse-drawn carriages in front

Plate 42 from the paper 'On the placenta'

The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label c200 AD (1956)'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).