Encyclopedie: The Wigmaker
- Creator:
- Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784
- Published/Created:
- 1771
- Date Depicted:
- 1975
1700 AD - 1799 AD - Notes:
- Designs for wigs.
- Abstract:
- The wig is always dressed away from the face. Back hair is tied with a bow. Side hair is arranged over the ears in one or two curls. After 1780 wigs are often unpowdered. For court occasions the powdered wig remains stylish until 1810; thereafter it is limited to servants and judicial magistrates. Faces are smooth shaven. The tricorne is now smaller and flatter. The bicorne appears for military dress, eventually passing into civilian use.
- Variant Titles:
- Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société des gens de lettres
- Associated Names:
- Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 [Author]
- Topics:
- Costume -- Europe -- History -- (LC)
Prints -- France -- 18th century -- (YVRC) - Period/Style:
- Late Georgian
- Culture:
- French
- Accession Number:
- 4391-191
- Genre:
- costume (mode of fashion) (AAT)
prints: engravings (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Clothing & Accessories
Prints & Photographs - Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Source Creator:
- Button, Jeanne and Sbarge, Stephen
- Source Title:
- History of Costume, In Slides, Notes and Commentaries: Volume 4
- Source Created:
- New York, NY
Theatre Arts Slide Presentations
1975 - Call Number:
- GT513 +B87 4 (LC)
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Original Repository:
- New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- OID:
- 10608747
- PID:
- digcoll:1801008