Collection Highlights
View of St. Patrick's Cathedral from Inside Rockefeller Center: Study for a Set of Painted Doors
2002
2002.46
Gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on gray paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Doll
Object name
Doll
Date
1840-1860
Medium
Wax, textile, leather, glass, paint
Dimensions
Overall: 18 x 5 x 2 1/2 in. ( 45.7 x 12.7 x 6.4 cm )
Description
Unclothed doll with wax shoulder head, black leather attached to back of head and ornamented with string, black glass pupilless eyes, closed mouth, and faintly tinted pink cheeks; stuffed cloth body with divided arm composed of stuffed cloth upper arm and stuffed kid lower arm, fingers formed by stitching, and complete leg with row of stitching allowing lower leg to bend.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. R.C. Hill, 1953
Object Number
Z.383
Gallery Label
On the label tied around the doll's middle, the following is written in ink, with the addition of "wax" in pencil: "First doll - 1844." On the back of an envelope found in the box originally given with the dolls, the following is written in pencil: "This doll/belonged to/Susie C. Hill/R.C.Hi[ll] sister/who died/when abt 12/The small doll belonged/to R.C. Hills/mother/Harriet C. Hill."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
