The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture Product:Greetings card 'Explanation of Plate XIX'

'Explanation of Plate XIX'

Plan of the River Thames showing the London Docks and the Isle of Dogs

The duchess was a prominent campaigner on Fox's behalf during the general election of 1784

London bridges

This cartoon accompanies a long poem in which Punch itemises how France has been betrayed by her Emperor

The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture Product:Greetings card 'Explanation of Plate XIX''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).