18" (46 cm.) All cloth doll with pressed and oil-painted facial features, complexion and hair, shaded brown hair with delicate tendrils around the face, two ringlet curls in front of each stitched-on ear, and five ringlet curls at the nape, shaded brown eyes with outlined eye sockets, feathered brows, accented nostrils, closed mouth, stitch-jointed body with little leather sewn-on boots, wearing an original red and brown checkered light woolen dress with apron, undergarments, and having a (very worn) additional dress, probably original, of brown cotton with soutache trim. Condition: very good, old re-cover on torso, some body patch on limbs, complexion a bit rubbed. Comments: Izannah Walker, circa 1865. Value Points: rare American doll whose style and artistry compares with noted mid-19th century American itinerant portrait painters such as Matthew Prior. The doll has a gentle and compelling presence.