The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label - viz - Parliament reform'd

- viz - Parliament reform'd

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

in a more natural drawing position

Plate 42 from the paper 'On the placenta'

c200 AD (1956)

The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label - viz - Parliament reform'd'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).