Fashionable Walking Dress 1842
Doll
1842 (made)
1842 (made)
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Doll, slim kid leather body with carved and painted wooden head, lower arms and legs. Bands of red paper around leg join between wood and leather. Painted green flat-soled slippers. Wearing a pale yellow striped silk day dress with tight bodice and long sleeves, with a matching shoulder cape. Fully lined white cotton. Bonnet trimmed with artificial flowers and leaves and lace. White silk handkerchief edged with lace. Petticoat of white lawn, over a heavily-stiffened cotton hip petticoat and a long glazed cotton chemise.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 5 parts.
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| Title | Fashionable Walking Dress 1842 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | wood and leather, garments of silk, cotton and lace |
| Brief description | Doll, German, dressed in England in fashionable walking ensemble of 1842 |
| Physical description | Doll, slim kid leather body with carved and painted wooden head, lower arms and legs. Bands of red paper around leg join between wood and leather. Painted green flat-soled slippers. Wearing a pale yellow striped silk day dress with tight bodice and long sleeves, with a matching shoulder cape. Fully lined white cotton. Bonnet trimmed with artificial flowers and leaves and lace. White silk handkerchief edged with lace. Petticoat of white lawn, over a heavily-stiffened cotton hip petticoat and a long glazed cotton chemise. |
| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Fashionable Walking Dress 1842
by Mrs Nath Powell (Paper pinned to doll's petticoat) |
| Credit line | Gift of Mr H.J. Powell |
| Object history | Laetitia Clark (born 1741) dressed 13 dolls between 1754 and 1814 in miniature fashionable outfits of the day using fabric from her own clothes. To accessorise the dolls she also collected miniature furniture and household utensils. In 1761 Laetitia married David Powell, a London merchant, at St Botolph's, Bishopgate, London. The couple continued to live in that area, and one of their sons was the grandfather of the founder of the Boy Scouts, General Sir Robert Baden-Powell. Further dolls - dressed by the granddaughters and great-granddaughters of Laetita Powell - were added to the collection up to 1911. This doll was dressed in 1841 in a fashionable walking dress of the period. The collection both illustrates the styles of dress of the period, the fabrics available, and the types of dolls that were available. |
| Bibliographic reference | Serena Dyer, 'Fashions in Miniature: Dolls', Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, 2021, chapter 5, 161-187. |
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| Accession number | W.183:15-1919 |
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| Record created | August 17, 2007 |
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