
- Mrs Neave's dolls' house
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Mrs Neave's dolls' house
- Object:
Dolls' house
- Place of origin:
England (made)
- Date:
ca. 1840 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Painted wood
- Credit Line:
Purchased from Mrs M K Neave in 1930.
- Museum number:
W.17-1930
- Gallery location:
Museum of Childhood, Homes Gallery, case 2
The house was bought from Mrs Neave of Cotham, Newark-on-Trent, in 1930. It dates from about 1840 but little is known about its origin. It is a snapshot of an early Victorian interior. Of particular interest is the nursery which, by this time, is a more comfortable, much less formal room than before, where a new mother would receive visitors to the new-born baby in some comfort as well as style. The exterior has pointed Gothic windows, an unusual feature in a dolls' house. The rooms are badly proportioned, and the full scale wallpaper and carpets emphasize this. Nonetheless the house conveys an atmosphere of undisturbed early Victorian domestic idyll.