French baroque and rococo wigs. Diderot`s Encyclopaedia

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Wigs. Rococo, Baroque. 18th c. France.

Wigs of men and woman. Baroque, rococo. 18th century

No.1. Wig with two tails.
No.2. Bag wig.
No.3. Square wig.
No.4. Newly growing wig.
No.5. An abbé wig
No.6. Woman`s wig
No.7. Wig à catogan
No.8. French wig, perruque à la brigadière
No.9. Knotted wig

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Illustration, damasks, ornament
Note:  Elisabeth Queen of Bohemia, Daughter of James the First, 1662.

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