Peg wooden doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Peg wooden doll, textiles
Measurements
230 mm (max. height); 80 mm (min. height)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659721
Summary
An old woman Dutch or peg wooden doll and her shoe and 14 children (circa 1850). The old woman Dutch doll has painted hair and facial features. She wears a brown wool cloak edged with red wool on the shoulders and inside front edge. Grey and white striped dress which has moth holes and a large hole under the right arm, red wool petticoat and cream cotton petticoat. Black fabric bonnet trimmed on the inside with lace and decorated with two dirty pink ribbons, one which ties under the chin. The shoe is made of cardboard covered in a dark red wool with moth holes and lined with dark brown wool. The upper edge is edged with dark brown tape. A dirty gold ribbon bow is sewn onto the front in addition to a black plaited braid rosette. On the side of the shoe is an oval shaped paper label with a verse written on it in ink. Inside the shoe are 14 tiny wooden Dutch or peg wooden dolls with painted facial features, painted hands and legs. One wears a deep purple dress; one a mauve dress; one a deep red dress; one a pink dress; one a deep pink dress; two wear pale green dresses; four wear cream dresses, one of these has lost her left leg; and three wear brown and beige striped dresses. One of the latter has lost her right arm. They each wear cream coloured petticoats. Total number of items is sixteen
Marks and inscriptions
On oval paper label on side of shoe: The old woman/ who lived in a shoe/ she had so many children/ she did not know what to/ do-