'The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture', 1770. Artist: Robert Dighton

'The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture', 1770. Artist: Robert Dighton

1-624-675 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'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).


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Robert Dighton: British: Artist, publisher, printer, caricaturist, actor, author, printmaker, painter, draughtsman
Subject
  1. Richard Cosway: British; English: Artist, painter, art dealer, collector
People Related
  1. George Paston: : Author

Picture Type
  1. Caricature
  2. Portrait
  3. Satire

Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Fashion & Dress

Society & Culture Art & Literature

Artistic Representations Portraits

Artistic Representations Satires

Artistic Representations Caricatures

People Other


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3565x4903
File Size : 51,209kb


Aliases

  1. 0580005642
  1. 1-624-675
  1. 1624675

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