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

- viz - Parliament reform'd

the scene is a Spitalfields silk-weaving shop

with figures and horse-drawn carriages in front

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

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).