The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label the scene is a Spitalfields

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'

Original: watercolour on paper

Brook Street

The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple sitting for his picture price label the scene is a Spitalfields'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).