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, or periwigs, classified as "Parsonick", "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' of 'Advertisement' is ommitted; the text 'or Parsonick' added to the label 'Episcopal' above center wig in top row.
Caption etched below image: Advertisment. 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.
Mounted to 44 x 28 cm on another sheet of laid paper. With ink annotations "First head 2d row Lord Melcombe" and "This plate in ridicule of Stewarts Athenae" at top of mounting sheet, in an 18th-century hand.
Provenance: Ronald Paulson; October 2024.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.3 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 35.4 x 25.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English