Doll

Object Name:

Doll

Object ID:

1959.068.064

Date:

1850-1920

Description:

Doll, boy with top hat. Composition head. Stuffed cotton body. Head piece ~5" high, stopping roughly below armpits. Firm and slightly soft body fits inside headpiece and extends all the way down to ends of feet. Articulation at bottom of torso ~10" from top and 8" from bottom. Stationary glass eyes. Head stationary. Painted eyebrows, eyelashes, and painted inner edge of head on inside corners of eyes. Nostrils and lips painted pink. Plain molded ears. Curly faux hair, light tan in color. Hair short in front and up to 0.5" long in back. Formal shirt of thin white fabric with woven stripes on front piece. Plain weave on sleeves and rest of shirt. Stand-up collar with white bow tie. Collar 0.5" high. Composition hands and arm pieces, ~4" long. Molded fingers and thumb. Long-sleeved shirt, cuff wraps around itself and overlaps at bottom edge. Sleeves roughly sewn to body at top. Coat blue wool (?) (moth-eaten). Long formal coat with two buttons at top on front. Coat tails trail away to below his hands. Turned-over collar around top edge of coat with sewn edge. Edges of coat also sewn. Second piece of cloth that looks something like a vest when coat buttoned closed. Plain to top of it and pinned in place. Small pocket on left front side. Two black cloth-covered buttons that match buttons on coat. Bottom edge of this piece sewn and drops to a shallow point in center front and are actually two pieces sewn together vertically. Bottom edge sewn. Long blue trousers with split on left side. Split ~2" long. Trousers ~10" long. Pants slightly tapered with plain sewn cuffs. Brown and white striped woven socks. Two-piece cloth shoes. Brown sole and gray upper portion of shoes. Sole and uppers sewn together and maybe partially sewn around top edges to stockings.

Hat made of paper, textile, and black faux fur outside surface. Black hat band with bow, 0.2" wide. Black textile edging fastened to both sides of edge of brim. Roughly cylindrical with flat top and brim turned up slightly at both side edges. Inside surface off-white heavy paper with some white threads showing where side was joined at an overlap joint. Top basted around top edge. Faux fur on some type of substrate glued to paper surfaces. Fur appears black in color, but actually a very dark brown.

Material:

Textile
Composition
Paper
Wool
Glass

Dimensions:

H-18 W-6 D-3.5 inches

Provenance:

All materials from the attic of the Burpee homestead in New London, NH, a neighbor of the donor. The Burpee family has been in this home since 1817.

Credit Line:

Gift of Susan Colgate Cleveland

People:

Cleveland, Susan Colgate (1891-1967), Burpee