478 OBSERVATIONS ON SCULPTURE. 
excuse that it would make the Philosopher look 
like one of the ancient sages and poets. The 
bust is a wonderfully fine one, and said to be very 
like, but certainly the sort of hair is objection- 
able, having been modelled from the flowing locks 
of a sturdy Irish beggar, hired for the occasion. 
The Doctor remonstrated seriously as to the hair, 
saying, ‘Aman, Sir, should be portrayed as he 
appears in company.”” But the Sculptor persisted. 
It was the practice of Roubiliac to model his 
heads without wigs, as witness those fine ones of 
Pope, Bolingbroke, Mead, and Frewin. Cuan- 
TRY too has taken the like freedom with some of 
the chief dignitaries of the Church. ‘Two Arch- 
bishops of Canterbury and a Bishop of Durham, 
who was bald, are standing in his Gallery, with- 
out their wigs, to the astonishment of many a 
sound divine. There is also a Bust of the late 
Doctor Parr, without his wig, the absence of 
which produces an extraordinary and somewhat 
ludicrous effect. 
Nollikens’ most celebrated Groups and Statues, 
are, in the Monument of Mrs. Howard, of Corby 
Castle, the Statue of Pitt, at Cambridge, and the 
Venus anointing her hair. The Portrait of Pitt 
was made from a Mask taken after death, aided 
