Five Orders of Periwigs.

William Hogarth

Five Orders of Periwigs.

London, J Boydell ca. 1806

Copper engraving

305 x 225mm

£220

From the collection of George Morant, (1770 – 1846) of 95 Wimpole St, London. A very fine set on mostly uncut sheets kept loose in a folio. Carefully printed and in very good condition.

Morant was a collector and Founder of a business of paper hangers, carvers, gilders and picture frame makers.

The company had offices at 88 Old Bond St,  from 1814, and was appointed as ‘house decorator, carver, gilder & picture-frame-maker to His Majesty’. From 1832 he was appointed again by Her majesty Queen Victoria

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.