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

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Title: The five orders of perriwigs as they were worn at the late coronation, measured architectonically [graphic].
Alternative Title: Five orders of periwigs
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 October 1761]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
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
Description: 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.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 302 x 218 mm, on sheet 382 x 282 mm.
Provenance: MacDonald; February 1941;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.3 x 22.0 cm, on sheet 31.9 x 23.4 cm
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Hogarth 761.10.15.01.2 Box 110
Collection Title: Plate 64. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Collection / Other Creator: Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1732-1764]

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1761
Etchings England London 1761
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804
Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic): Antiquarians
Clothing & dress
Hairstyles
Wigs
Subjects: Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Caricatures and cartoons
Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stuart, James, 1713-1788
Antiquarians
Clothing & dress
Hairstyles
Wigs
England > 1761
England > London > 1761
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership

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