Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
115 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665451
Summary
A wooden doll made from a clothes peg, made to represent Queen Elizabeth I. She has painted facial features with red wool hair and jewels, and wears a red and gold lurex dress with a red velvet bodice and overskirt and a white lace ruff. She has stiffened pink jersey knit hands, the right hand holding a feather fan. She wears a vilene underskirt and around her neck is a pearl necklace. The base of the peg is painted black to represent shoes.