Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
The five orders of periwigs
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 · (c) October 15, 1761
Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian." At the bottom of the sheet a row of women's heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte. The wigs are annotated in the manner of illustrations to contemporary architectural treatises.
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