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White female with blond wig cut in a fringe at the front and pinned into a bun at the back; painted and moulded facial features with fixed grey-blue glass eyes and closed mouth; ears pierced for earrings.\r\nShe wears black stockings; mid-calf length white cotton lawn drawers, tucked and edged with lace; short flared petticoat of pink and white striped flannel with a scalloped hem edged with buttonhole stitch; floor-length flared petticoat of purple and bronze shot silk, finished with a pinked ruffle at the hem.\r\nHer suit (or two piece dress) is of dark blue rep with a horizontal gold stripe in the weave, and is trimmed with black beded edging on the collar and skirt hem: the top has leg-o-mutton sleeves, a close-fitting bodice and a wide turn-down collar with rounded points; the scooped neck is filled in with plain dark blue cloth, and a cream lisse scarf tied in a large bow at the front.  The flared floor-lenth skirt is lined with black twilled sateen, and is cut with a short train.  She also wears a fur stole and a small hat which is trimmed with net and flowers and is worn over a brown hairnet.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Biscuit","id":"AAT242297"},{"text":"cotton textile","id":"AAT14067"},{"text":"Lawn","id":"AAT249444"},{"text":"lace","id":"AAT132861"},{"text":"paint","id":"AAT15029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting image making","id":"AAT54216"},{"text":"moulding","id":"AAT53134"},{"text":"Sewing","id":"AAT53658"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Painted and moulded bisque, cloth body, lawn, cotton and lace","categories":[{"text":"Dolls","id":"THES274380"},{"text":"Dolls and toys","id":"THES48967"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"YVA","id":"THES48593"},"images":["2006AY2306","2012FT6312"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES324837"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Doll","id":""}],[{"text":"fashion doll","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Germany","id":"x28873"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"UK","id":"x29336"},"association":{"text":"dressed","id":"x40978"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1890-93","earliest":"1890-01-01","latest":"1893-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"1893","earliest":"1893-01-01","latest":"1893-12-31"},"association":{"text":"dressed","id":"x40978"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"31.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"In 1893 the doll was dressed in fashionable costume by the Powell family.  Letitia Clark (born 1741), who married a London merchant called David Powell (born 1725) at the church of St Botolph's Bishopsgate, London in 1761, had a hobby of dressing dolls in the prevailing fashions of her day, in some instances copying her own clothes.  Her earliest one shows a dress of 1754.  Letitia died in 1801 and David in 1810, but their descendants continued this tradition of dressing dolls until 1912.  The dolls were presented to the museum in two gifts: Letitia's great grandson Harry J Powell (born c 1853) gave the earlier group (1754-1853 plus one later one), which came with a number of accompanying pieces of set dressing, such as to-scale tables, chairs and china, in 1919.  In 1939 his sister Miss Beatrice P Powell (born c 1863) gave a further twenty four, which wore costumes from 1860-1912), of which this is one.  This group did not have accompanying furniture, but often appropriate accessories, including a doll with a tennis racket, one with a croquet mallet and one with a bicycle; one was dressed in mouring for Queen Victoria's death in 1901.\r\n\r\nHarry and Beatrice Powell and their siblings were doubly descendants of Letitia and David, as their parents Agnes and Nathaniel were Powell cousins.  The family at one time owned the Whitefriars glass company, and also included the founder of the Scouting movement, Robert Baden-Powell.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bisque-headed, dressed in a suit of dark blue and gold by the Powell family in 1893; doll made in Germany, 1890-93","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Dressed by members of the Powell family","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.37-1939"],"accessionNumberNum":"37","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1939,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-10","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-01","availableToBook":false}}