Queen Anne Boleyn (1507–1536)
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wooden doll
Measurements
110 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665453
Summary
A wooden doll made from a clothes peg, depicting Ann Boleyn, with painted facial features and brown wool hair. The doll is wearing a black and blue headdress with lurex bead decoration. She has stiffened jersey material hands. She is wearing a gold linen dress with lace edging at the neck and the cuffs.She has a blue velvet over dress with gold lurex and blue deep cuffs and bead decoration at the neck edge. She holds a scroll of white paper in her left hand and is wearing a vilene underskirt. The doll appears to be handmade.