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The five orders of periwigs

The five orders of periwigs
1761; (1790) {or (1822) published}

Medium
etching and engraving

Measurements
30.2 × 22.3 cm (plate) 42.5 × 35.1 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Emeritus Professor P. W. Musgrave, Member, 1995

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Paulson 209 iii/iii; BM Satires 3812

Edition
3rd of 3 states

Inscription
printed in ink u.l.-u.r.: The five orders of PERRIWIGS as they were worn at the late CORONATION, measured Architectonically.
printed in ink l.c.: Advertisement. / In about Seventeen Years will be compleated, in Six Volumns, folio, price Fifteen Guineas, the / exact measurements of the Perriwigs of the ancients, taken from the Statues, Bustos & Baso- / Relievos, of Athens, Palmira, Balbex, and Rome, by Modes to Perriwig-meter from Lagado. / N.B. None will be sold but to subscribers. - Publish'd as the Act directs Oct.r (r in superscript above . ) 15. 1761 by W: Hogarth.

Accession Number
1995.361

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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