Fashion — 1910-1922
Miss Turnip
Miss Turnip is one of the characters of Una Maw's book The Vegetable Kingdom. The dolls were made by Maw while she lived in London around 1920, and were donated to the London Museum in 1922. Within the book, Miss Turnip is a widow, and mother to the four Little Radishes.
Doll with stuffed cloth body dressed in skirt of white patterned cotton with pink trim and top of pink and white striped silk, tied with a green silk ribbon at waist. Head resemblesa turnip, silk with with facial features painted, embroidered or sewn on. Leaves of green cotton.
- Category:
- Fashion
- Object ID:
- A24417v
- Object name:
- Miss Turnip
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Maw, Una
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- Production date:
- 1910-1922
- Material:
- cotton, wool, metal, paint, silk
- Measurements/duration:
- H 310 mm, W 160 mm, D 20 mm
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
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- Credit:
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
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- Creative commons usage:
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- License this image:
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