Posed upon a wooden platform with paper mache sculpted surface to suggest the countryside, decorated with ferns and flowers, is a bisque-headed lady with blue glass eyes, open mouth, teeth, auburn mohair lashes and wig, carton torso and lower legs, and bisque forearms. She is wearing a rose silk blouse with lace trim, black riding pants, leather boots, and fancy bonnet, and is posed upon an early metal bicycle with headlight; the bicycle is arranged upon a pathway, partially covered with faux-cobblestones and partially as an unpaved road. The doll is marked S&H 1079. Movements: the lady turns her head from side to side, she moves hands up and down as though steering the bicycle, she pedals the bicycle, the bicycle wheels turn, and the road also moves (sometimes showing the cobblestone, sometimes the unpaved surface). The automaton was presented in a catalog of Roullet et Decamps named Bicyclist Coquette, No. 366. Importantly, the catalog description bragged that the construction of the roadway gave the illusion of a changing terrain; a brag that was successfully achieved. France, circa 1890. 14" (36 cm). Five movements. Two tunes.