Pedlar doll
Category
Dolls
Date
circa 1880 - 1889
Materials
Pedlar doll
Measurements
320 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662043
Summary
A pedlar doll standing on an oval wooden plinth covered in red velvet, underneath a glass dome. She has a brown, crackled face, inset black and white eyes, an open smiling mouth with teeth, and dark brown fabric hair. Her hands and lower arms are made of pink plastic. She is wearing a blue fabric dress with a flat, circular base. Over this is a white cotton lawn apron and a long, hooded, red cloak. Tied to a tape around her waist is a chatelaine incorporating a Knave of Hearts playing card. Around her neck is a pendant decorated with a picture of a couple dancing. She is wearing bead earrings (part of one is missing a bead). Hooked over her left arm is a woven straw basket containing beads, shoe laces, dried yellow flowers, three miniature dolls, haberdasher's pins and a couple of printed Fortune telling books containing fortunes. Total number of items is 3.
Provenance
Loaned to the Museum of Childhood by the Betty Cadbury Trust Sudbury in May 1993.