American Cloth Doll by Izannah Walker with Furnishings and Accessories

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20" (51 cm.) All-cloth doll, stitched-on head with pressed, stiffened and oil-painted facial features and hair, stitched-on ears, large outlined brown eyes, single stroke brows, closed mouth with center line between the pale lips, brown painted hair with two shaded ringlet curls in front of ear and six ringlet curls at back of head, muslin stitch-jointed body with oil-painted lower arms and legs, wearing original red cotton dress with white apron, undergarments, stockings and leather shoes. Condition: very good, original finish with typical light craquelure, nose rub. Comments: Izannah Walker, circa 1870s, the doll was acquired by the Museum from the family of the original owner, along with various furniture and accessories which the family had preserved along with the doll, including an early wooden paint decorated box filled with various ephemera and incidentals including woolen shawl, paisley wrap, velvet bonnet with milliner's label of Miss G. M. Rea, Fine Millinery, Concord N.H., undergarments, toys including early patched cloth elephant, miniature books including Willie's Western Visit and Great Truths in Simple Words for Little Children, a remarkable miniature album of hand-woven hair samples, and more; along with an unusual wooden rocker with birch bark hinged seat, and spinning wheel. The doll is shown in the book, The Rose Unfolds, by Rosalie Whyel and Susan Hedrick, page 74/75.