The five orders of perriwigs as they were worn at the late coronation, measured architectonically [graphic].

Creator:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.

Edition:

[State 3].

Published/Created:

[London] :
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth,
[15 October 1761]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 30.3 x 22.0 cm, on sheet 31.9 x 23.4 cm

Notes:

Title etched above image.
Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs.
State from Paulson. The second 'e' in advertisement added above the line; the 'k' in parsonic burnished out.
Caption etched below image: Advertisement. In about seventeen years will be compleated, in six volumns, folio, price fifteen guineas, the exact measurements of the perriwigs of the ancients ...
Portraits after James 'Athenian' Stuart and Nicholas Revett.

Abstract:

"Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian"; at the bottom of the sheet a row of womens heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte; the wigs are annotated in the manner of illustrations to contemporary architectural treatises."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Five orders of periwigs

Topics:

Antiquarians.
Clothing & dress.
Hairstyles.
Wigs.

Topics:

Charlotte,--Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain,--1744-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, publisher.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Revett, Nicholas,--1720-1804--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sotheby, Frederick Edward,--1837-1909--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Stuart, James,--1713-1788.--Antiquities of Athens.
Stuart, James,--1713-1788.--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Etchings--England--London--1761.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1761.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

9883324

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr26249a

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3812
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 209
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 208

OID:

16194154

PID:

digcoll:4047317