Accession number
PML 146853.15
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth, [1761
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Library's copy mounted on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs.
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.
State from Paulson. The second 'e' in advertisement added above the line; the 'k' in parsonic burnished out.
Library's copy mounted on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs.
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.
State from Paulson. The second 'e' in advertisement added above the line; the 'k' in parsonic burnished out.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 265 x 209 mm; plate mark: 300 x 220 mm; sheet: 336 x 271 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
"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.
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