Five Orders of Periwigs.

William Hogarth

Five Orders of Periwigs.

London,  Baldwin Craddock & Joy 1822

Copper engraving

305 x 225mm

£180

Hogarth’s comparison of Palladio’s orders of architecture with fashionable wigs, satirizing both the absurd fashions of the day with the minute archaeological accuracy of ‘Athenian’ Stuart.