Wigs [graphic].

Description

Title: Wigs [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [12 October 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accorg. to act, Octr. 12, 1773, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5169. Fourteen caricature heads showing the different types of wig worn in 1773. Most appear to be portraits: one is evidently a caricature of Lord Chancellor Bathurst, see British Museum Satire No. 4888."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description: Title etched below image.
State without plate number. Cf. No. 5170 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Companion print to: Hats.
On leaf 25.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 26 x 38 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 25. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Wigs
Subjects: Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Wigs
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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