MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF WEDGWOOD. 



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is small, when compared with what was worn by those who 

 were in the "height of fashion" in those days, and which 

 caused one of the writers of the time to say, " At present, 



such unmerciful ones are worn, that a little man's shoulders 

 are perfectly covered with black satin." 



When fashion had changed, when the bag wig was dis- 

 carded, and the coat assumed its deep collar, the next 

 medallion was evidently prepared, and bore the admirable 

 profile which I engrave on the next page. The few years 

 that had intervened, too, had, besides changing the fashion 

 of the garments and of the hair, deepened the features of 

 the great man, and given to them even a more solid 



