18th Century Material Culture

Dolls
 English
Wood Dolls
English “The Old Pretender” Doll
c. 1680
(Victoria & Albert)
English “The Old Pretender” Doll
c. 1680
(Victoria & Albert)
English “The Old Pretender” Doll with Chair
c. 1680
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1690
(The Strong - National Museum of Play)
English Doll - Lord & Lady Clapham
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Coat
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Sleeved Waistcoat
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Breeches
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Neck Cloth
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Shirt
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Stockings
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Gloves
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Banyan
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Shoes
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Sword
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lord Clapham - His Chair
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham
c. 1690 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham
c. 1690 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham
c. 1690 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Mantua
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Shift
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Stays
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Petticoat
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Petticoat
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Petticoat
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Stockings & Garters
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Stocking & Garter
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Shoes
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Pocket
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Purse
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Earrings
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll - Lady Clapham - Her Cushion
c. 1690 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
Late 17th - Early 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
c. 1700 - 1710
(Museum of London)
 English Doll
c. 1700 - 1710
(Museum of London)
 English Doll
c. 1700 - 1710
(Museum of London)
 English Doll
c. 1700 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1700 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1700 - 1725
(Manchester Art Gallery)
 English Doll
c. 1700 - 1725
(Kyoto Costume Institute)
 English Doll
c. 1710
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1710 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Dolls
c. 1715 - 1725
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Dolls
c. 1715 - 1725
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Dolls
c. 1715 - 1725
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll
c. 1720
(Skinner)
English Doll
c. 1720
(Skinner)
English Doll
c. 1720
(Skinner)
 English Doll
Muslin Slip Has Hand-Lettered “1720"
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
c. 1730 - 1740
(Manchester Art Gallery)
 English Doll
Early 18th Century
(DAR Museum)
 English Doll
c. 1725 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Male Doll
c. 1730 - 1740
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 English Doll
c. 1735
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
Early 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Canvas Panel Embroidered 1735
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Pocket Dated 1739
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
c. 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1740
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
c. 1740 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1740 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1740 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1740 - 1760
(Manchester Art Gallery)
 English Doll
c. 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1745
(National Trust Museum of Childhood)
English Doll
c. 1750
(Skinner)
English Doll
c. 1750
(Skinner)
English Doll
c. 1750
(Skinner)
English Doll
c. 1750
(Skinner)
 English Doll
c. 1750
(Withington’s Auctions)
 English Doll
c. 1750
(Withington’s Auctions)
 English Doll
c. 1750 - 1760
(The Strong - National Museum of Play)
English Doll
c. 1750
(Christie’s)
English Doll
c. 1750
(Christie’s)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
c. 1750 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Pook & Pook)
 English Doll
18th Century
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Private Collection)
English or French Doll
18th Century
(Private)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Hampshire County Museums and Archives Service)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
18th Century
(The Strong - National Museum of Play)
 English Doll
c. 1750 - 1800
(The Strong - National Museum of Play)
 English Doll
c. 1750 - 1800
(The Strong - National Museum of Play)
 English Doll
c. 1755 - 1760
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1755 - 1760
(Victoria & Albert)
 Wooden Doll
18th Century
(Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh)
 English Doll
c. 1760
(Theriault’s - the dollmasters)
 English Doll
c. 1760
(Theriault’s - the dollmasters)
 English Doll
c. 1760
(National Trust, Dudmaston, Shropshire)
 English Doll
c. 1765 - 1775
(National Trust Museum of Childhood)
 Wooden Peg Doll
c. 1760 - 1770
(McCord Museum)
 English Doll “The Queen of Denmark Doll”
Given to Elizabeth, Daughter of Thomas Sampson, Chaplain of the Royal Hospital at Chelseac in 1760
Possibly Given by George III's Sister, Caroline Matilda, who Married Christian, King of Denmark in 1766
(Museum of London)
 English Doll
c. 1760
(Museum of London)
 English Doll
c. 1770
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 English Doll
c. 1770
(Bradford Museums and Galleries)
 English Chalkly Farm Doll
c. 1770
(Historic Jamestown / “Jamestown’s Legacy in the American Revolution)
 English Chalkly Farm Doll
c. 1770
(Historic Jamestown / “Jamestown’s Legacy in the American Revolution)
English Doll Named “Nellie” of the Harris family of Radford House, Plymstock, England
c. 1770 - 1780
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Includes Ink-script Paper Note "this doll belonged to Mary Wilson, Tranby Croft 1772"
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
c. 1770 - 1785
(The Bowe’s Museum)
 English Doll
c. 1770 - 1775
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1770 - 1775
(Bowes Museum)
 English Doll
c. 1770 - 1785
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll
c. 1775
(Christie’s)
 English Doll
c. 1780
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English "Bed Post Doll” Excavated from a British Military Site in Lower Manhattan. 3 3/4” Tall
Found with a Hand-Made Whizzer, Earthenware Marbles & Buttons from H.M. 57th Regiment of Foot
(Michael Cohn, "Evidence of Children at Revolutionary War Sites” inn "Northeast Historical Archaeology”, 1983)
 English "Bed Post Doll” Excavated from a British Military Site in Lower Manhattan. 3 3/4” Tall
Found with a Hand-Made Whizzer, Earthenware Marbles & Buttons from H.M. 57th Regiment of Foot
(Michael Cohn, "Evidence of Children at Revolutionary War Sites” inn "Northeast Historical Archaeology”, 1983)
 English Doll
c. 1780
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll
c. 1780
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
Pair of English Dolls
c. 1780
(Bonhams)
 English Doll
c. 1780
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Dolls
Late 18th Century
(Noel Barrett)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Noel Barrett)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Christie’s)
 English Dolls
Late 18th Century
(Noel Barrett)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Noel Barrett)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Noel Barrett)
English Doll “Lady Gwendolyn”
c. 1780 - 1790
(Carmel Doll Shop)
English Doll “Lady Gwendolyn”
c. 1780 - 1790
(Carmel Doll Shop)
English Doll “Lady Gwendolyn”
c. 1780 - 1790
(Carmel Doll Shop)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 American
Wood Dolls
 Letitia Penn Wooden Doll
Belonged to the Daughter of William Penn (1644- 1718)
(Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent)
 Wood Doll
c. 1725
(Rhode Island Historical Society)
 Ann Proctor’s Doll
c. 1785
(Hammond - Harwood House)
 French
Wood Dolls
 French Court Doll
c. 1780
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
 French Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 French Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 French Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 German
Wood Dolls
 German Dolls
c. 1740 - 1759
(Gemeentemuseum Den Haag)
 German Doll
Late 18th Century
(Bonhams)
 German Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 German Doll
Dated 1790
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Dutch
Wood Dolls
 Dutch Doll
c. 1750 - 1800
(Nederlands Openluchtmuseum)
 Dutch Doll
c. 1775 - 1800
(Nederlands Openluchtmuseum)
 Dutch Doll
c. 1775 - 1800
(Nederlands Openluchtmuseum)
 Dutch Doll
c. 1775 - 1800
(Fries Museum)
 Dutch Doll
c. 1775 - 1800
(Amsterdam Museum)
 Dutch Baby Doll
c. 1750 - 1800
(Nederlands Openluchtmuseum)
 Dutch Doll
c. 1760
(Centraal Museum)
Continental
Wood Dolls
 Continental Doll
Late 17th - Early 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Doll
Late 17th - Early 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Doll
Late 17th - Early 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
Wooden Doll
c. 1700
(Bonhams)
 Continental Doll
Early 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
Continental Doll
c. 1735
(Skinner)
Continental Doll
c. 1735
(Skinner)
 Flemish Doll
c. 1740
(Carmel Doll Shop)
 Continental Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
Continental Doll
c. 1760
(Rijksmuseum)
European (?) “Pandora” Doll
c. 1760
(Carmel Doll Shop)
 Dolls
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Doll
c. 1795
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Marionette
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
Paper - Mache
Dolls
 German Paper Mache
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
Wax
Dolls
American Molded Wax Doll from Boston
by Sarah Gardner c. 1720 - 1725
(Historic New England)
American Molded Wax Doll from Boston
by Sarah Gardner c. 1720 - 1725
(Historic New England)
 English Molded Wax Doll
“Mrs. Powell’s Wedding Suit 1761”
(Victoria & Albert)
 German Wax Doll
18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Wax Doll
Mid 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Wax Dolls
Mid 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 French Wax Doll
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 Continental Wax Dolls
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
Cloth
Dolls
“Bangwell Putt”, Cherished Doll of Miss Clarissa Field of Northfield, Massachusetts
Made by a Relative c. 1770
(Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts)
 Doll
Clothing
 Gown
18th Century
(Private Collection)
Children
With Dolls
 Jeux d'enfants
by Van Mieris Willem, le Jeune (1662 - 1747)
(Royaume-Uni, Londres, Wallace Collection)
 Katherine Whitmore
by Bernard Lens 1724
(Victoria & Albert)
Samuel Richardson Surrounded by His Second Family
by Francis Hayman 1740
(Tate)
Samuel Richardson Surrounded by His Second Family
by Francis Hayman 1740
(Tate)
 A Children’s Tea Party
by William Hogarth 1730
(National Museum Wales)
Gerard Anne Edwards Hamilton, in His Cradle
by William Hogarth 1732
(National Trust, Upton House)
 “La charmante Catin” (The Charming Doll)
by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus 1742
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
“L’ENCLINATION DE L’AGE”
by Pierre-Louis de Surugue 1742
(Victoria & Albert)
 The Letter
by Pietro Longhi 1746
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
 Lady Ann Fitzpatrick
by Francis Cores c. 1755
(x)
 French Girl With Doll
by Jean - Baptiste Greuze c. 1755
(Hermitage)
 Elizabeth Randolph
by John Wollaston 1755
(Virginia Historical Society)
 Mary Lightfoot
by John Wollaston 1757
(Private Collection)
Mann Page & His Sister Elizabeth
by John Wollaston 1757
(Virginia Historical Society)
 A Fishmonger
by Paul Sandby 1758
(Yale Center for British Art)
 A Fishmonger
by Paul Sandby 1758
(Yale Center for British Art)
“BABY CLOATHS & ALL FOR THREE PENCE”
by J.S. Müller c. 1745
(Public Domain)
Lady and Gentleman with Two Girls and a Servant
by Nicolas Lanceet c. 1742
(National Gallery, London)
Portraits de Catherine-Félicité et Adélaïde Berthelin de Neuville
by Charles André Vanloo c. 1743
(Paris, Musée du Louvre)
Woman & Child Holding a Doll
by Paul Sandby c. 1758 - 1760
(Yale Center for British Art)
Cornelia Chambers, later Mrs John Millbanke
by Francis Cotes 1763
(Osterley Park and House, London)
“BUILDING HOUSES with CARDS”
by John Bowles pre - 1764
(Lewis Walpole Library)
 Swiss Girl with Doll
by Jean-Étienne Liotard 1765
(Private Collection)
 English Children
c. 1765
(Private Collection)
 Girl with Doll
by Unknown 1765
(Private Collection)
 Girl with Doll
by Susanna Duncombe 1765
(Tate)
George Harry Grey and Lady Henrietta Grey with Their Nurse
by Hugh Douglas Hamilton 1767
(National Trust)
Madame d'Orval et mademoiselle de Wargemont
by Carmontelle, Carrogis Louis 1760
(Chantilly, musée Condé)
 The House of Cards
by Francois - Hubert Drouis
(Public Domain)
 “Mamma Giving Toys”
by John Bowles & Son 1765
(Colonial Williamsburg Foudation)
 Girl with Doll
by English School 1765
(Private Collection)
“THE CITY CHANTERS.”
by John Collet 1771
(The British Museum)
 Two Sisters
by Carl-Ludwig Christinek 1772
(National Arts Museum of the Republic of Belarus)
 A Child
by John Flaxman 1772
(The British Museum)
 “L’ENFANCE. CHILDHOOD”
by Simon Francois Ravenet after Philippe Mercier c. 1775 - 1800
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
Christopher Anstey with His Daughter
by William Hoare 1776
(National Portrait Gallery)
 The Copley Family
by John Singleton Copley c. 1776 - 1777
(National Gallery of Art)
 The Copley Family
by John Singleton Copley c. 1776 - 1777
(National Gallery of Art)
The Children of Ferdinand of Parma (Louis, Carolina, Maria Antonia & Carlotta)
by Johann Zoffany 1778
(Kunsthisorisches Museum)
 “REYNARD’S LAST SHIFT.”
by Bowles & Carver after John Collet 1779
(The British Museum)
 “REYNARD’S LAST SHIFT.”
by Bowles & Carver after John Collet 1779
(The British Museum)
 “Le petit Fille vue de face...”
by Pierre - Thomas LeClerc, Engraved by Charles Emmanuel Jean Baptiste Patas, Published by Esnauts et Rapilly 1780
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 Child Holding a Doll
by John Downman 1780
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
“James Gandon & Family (Architect) 1780”
by Paul Sandby 1780
(Yale Center for British Art)
Self Portrait with His Wife Sanneke van Bommel and Their Children
by Hendrik Spilman (Dutch) 1780
(Private Collection)
The Comforts of Industry
by George Morland 1780
(Public Domain)
 Child Holding a Doll
by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 - 1785, Italian Artist Active in London)
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
“MR. DEPUTY DUMPLING and FAMILY enjoying a SUMMER AFTERNOON”
by Carington Bowles after Robert Dighton 1781
(The British Museum)
“MR. DEPUTY DUMPLING and FAMILY enjoying a SUMMER AFTERNOON”
by Carington Bowles after Robert Dighton 1781
(The British Museum)
Louisa Alrey Gilmor and Her Daughters, Jane and Elizabeth
by Charles Wilson Peale 1788
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
Peggy Sanderson and Daughter
by Charles Wilson Peale 1788
(Private Collection)
 Ann Proctor
by Charles Wilson Peale 1789
(Hammond - Harwood House)
 Child with Doll
18th Century (19th Century Frame)
(Theriaults)
Accessories
 English Doll House
Made for the Blackett Family c. 1759 - 1761
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll House
c. 1750 - 1800
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll House
c. 1750 - 1800
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll House
c. 1760
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll House
c. 1760
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll House
c. 1760
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll House
c. 1760
(Victoria & Albert)
English Doll House
c. 1760
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll House
Made in 1783, Restored c. 1940
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll House
Made in 1783, Restored c. 1940
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll House
Made in 1783, Restored c. 1940
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll House
Made in 1783, Restored c. 1940
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll House
Made in 1783, Restored c. 1940
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll House
Made in 1783, Restored c. 1940
(Victoria & Albert)
 English Doll House
Made in 1783, Restored c. 1940
(Victoria & Albert)
English Miniature or Doll’s Basket
c. 1700 - 1799
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Desk
c. 1740 - 1750
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Chest of Drawers
c. 1740 - 1760
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Chair
c. 1780
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Brass Fireplace with Poker, Tongs, & Ash Shovel
c. 1780 - 1800
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Mirror
c. 1780 - 1800
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Soft Paste Porcelain with Chinoiserie Decoration
by the Worcester Porcelain Factory, Caughley c. 1765 - 1795
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Cream Colored Earthenware Dinner Service
c. 1770 - 1790
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Lead Glazed Earthenware Teacup & Saucer
by Wieldon c. 1750 - 1760
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Pewterware
c. 1740 - 1790
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Pewterware
c. 1740 - 1790
(Manchester Art Gallery)
English Miniature or Doll’s Pewterware
c. 1740 - 1790
(Manchester Art Gallery)
 English Slant Front Desk
Late 18th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
 English Bombe Desk
Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Theriault’s - The Dollmasters)
English Miniature or Doll’s Tooled Leather, Wood, & Cotton Trunk
c. 1790
(Manchester Art Gallery)
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