We do not know whether Broghill topped off his extravagant outfits with a
periwig, but he was certainly wearing one in 1660, when his earliest surviving portrait was painted.
4 contained a number of the festival winners: "The Preacher's Life" won for best TV series; Rally's G-Force was the best commercial; At the Ends of the Earth garnered the Gordon Bruce Award for Fishing took The Best: Computer Animation prize; Fierlinger's Drawn From Life docu-animation was recognized as the Best Series; while The
Periwig Maker was awarded The Best First Professional Film Prize.
She plans to acquire a new farthingale, a French hood, a bumroll, a
periwig, a fan, and a mask (10.
Then the madness comes and Haig is reduced from braided jacket and
periwig to nightshirt and "What what
Also from Sutton we have a paperback of Frederic Boyce's SOE's Ultimate Deception: Operation
Periwig ([pounds sterling]10.
We see Pepys when he drills holes in the wall to see what goes on in his front office, when his neighbor's toilet leaks into his cellar, and when his
periwig accidentally catches fire.
First with a film called Sand-man which lost out to Wallace and Gromit and last year with a 30-minute short called
Periwig Maker, based on a book by Daniel Defoe.
In another, the face of a 17th century aristocrat complete with
periwig gazes solemnly towards a study of greyhounds by 16th century painter Frans Snyders.
A new production is planned for the autumn of 2009 by London's
Periwig and Monkey Theatre Company.
It was to remain predominant until the autumn of 1666, but since none of these male figures is also depicted in a
periwig, which by 1663 was becoming widespread in fashionable circles, the composition must date from the early 1660s.
We can compare this likeness with a more mature Gonson, dressed in similar coat and
periwig which is illustrated in Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress, 1732, plate III.
You'll think
periwigs, tight trousers and language out of books that spurt dust when you snap them shut.
