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

Description

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 30.2 x 22.3 cm, on sheet 36.6 x 28.9 cm.
Mounted on leaf 46 x 59 cm.
Plate 64 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Queen Charlotte, the album bound according to Her Majesty's direction. Purchased by W.S. Lewis at Sotheby's, Miss M.A.E. Crofton sale, lot 341; 15 November 1960.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.3 x 22.0 cm, on sheet 31.9 x 23.4 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
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]