For the decade between 1873 and 1882, George Du Maurier produced a series of highly memorable cartoons for Punch which satirised the Aesthetic Movement and its extravagant cult of the beautiful. However, he gave the series a proper sense of unity only by introducing Mrs Cimabue Brown, the leader of a circle of aesthetic enthusiasts (1877) and then the painter Maudle and the poet Postlethwaite (1880). Here they are joined by Peter Pilcox, who gives up chemistry for sculpture, and vies with Postlethwaite for public attention.