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)
Orbis Barcode:
39002051938463
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