Doll
Cyril Hobbins
Category
Toys
Date
2003 - 2004
Materials
Boxwood [buxus sempervirens], Chestnut, Hair, Leather, Textile
Measurements
280 mm (Width) x 103 mm (Depth); 980 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Kenilworth
Order this imageCollection
Wordsworth House and Garden, Cumbria
NT 866722
Summary
The jointed wooden doll is made from boxwood with chestnut limbs, the arms attached by leather. A painted face with brown human hair. She has two hand sewn, blue silk dresses worn over a white muslin undergarment and a white lace trimmed mop cap which is permanently glued to the hair.
Makers and roles
Cyril Hobbins, toymaker