Five Orders of Periwigs.

William Hogarth

Five Orders of Periwigs.

London, William Hogarth Oct 15^th 1751

Copper engraving

303x220mm

£350

A lifetime impression. A final state after the correction of the spelling Advertisment below the design and after the addition of or Parsonic to the description of the Episcopal wigs. 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. Paulson 209 III/III.