A Little Girl at the Toy-Mender's
Oil Painting
1902 (made)
1902 (made)
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Painting of a little girl at the toy-mendersshows a toy-mender's workshop, furnished with shelves, drawers, a work table and a desk. He is seated by the table looking at the child over the top of his spectacles & is holding her broken doll; she stands to one side, eyes downcast (possibly crying) her pinafore crumpled in her hands. The workshop is evidently a room in a cottage, rather than a shop, with a wooden door to one side: bottles & pots of glue, paint etc & brushes stand about the room, with dolls & parts of dolls. The toy-mender wears typical artisan's clothing of the period: a dark (probably leather) apron over a collarless white shirt, dark waistcoat & trousers; the child has short hair & wears a white pinafore over a short-sleeved dark green frock with red socks & black shoes with instep straps.
Object details
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Object type | |
Title | A Little Girl at the Toy-Mender's (manufacturer's title) |
Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
Brief description | Painting (little girl at toy-mender's); British, 1902 |
Physical description | Painting of a little girl at the toy-mender's, in oil on canvas in a frame of black-stained wood, & of landscape proportion. It shows a toy-mender's workshop, furnished with shelves, drawers, a work table and a desk. He is seated by the table looking at the child over the top of his spectacles & is holding her broken doll; she stands to one side, eyes downcast (possibly crying) her pinafore crumpled in her hands. The workshop is evidently a room in a cottage, rather than a shop, with a wooden door to one side: bottles & pots of glue, paint etc & brushes stand about the room, with dolls & parts of dolls (including a large dressed doll sitting in a trunk on the floor, & two complete dolls, one of them dressed, hanging in the window); there is also an open fire, and a pair of bellows. The toy-mender wears typical artisan's clothing of the period: a dark (probably leather) apron over a collarless white shirt, dark waistcoat & trousers; the child has short hair & wears a white pinafore over a short-sleeved dark green frock with red socks & black shoes with instep straps. |
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Marks and inscriptions | SALOMON 1902 |
Object history | Gift of Miss Margaret H Wesson, 1995 Given as a present to the donor when an adult |
Production | Made by: Salomon (signed) |
Summary | Painting of a little girl at the toy-mendersshows a toy-mender's workshop, furnished with shelves, drawers, a work table and a desk. He is seated by the table looking at the child over the top of his spectacles & is holding her broken doll; she stands to one side, eyes downcast (possibly crying) her pinafore crumpled in her hands. The workshop is evidently a room in a cottage, rather than a shop, with a wooden door to one side: bottles & pots of glue, paint etc & brushes stand about the room, with dolls & parts of dolls. The toy-mender wears typical artisan's clothing of the period: a dark (probably leather) apron over a collarless white shirt, dark waistcoat & trousers; the child has short hair & wears a white pinafore over a short-sleeved dark green frock with red socks & black shoes with instep straps. |
Collection | |
Accession number | B.132-1995 |
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Record created | April 19, 2000 |
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