Doll house and furniture
Artist:
John Langden Whitten
(American)
Date: 1864-1876
Medium: Wood
Dimensions:15 × 13 × 18 1/2 in. (38.1 × 33 × 47 cm)
Classification: Recreational Artifacts
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Kelso and Mabel Whitten
Object number: C 2136
DescriptionUnpainted, handmade wooden doll house with thirty pieces of furniture. The house's roof is removable, as is the second floor, which lifts out in two pieces. There are a kitchen, sitting room, pantry, hallway with stairs and small bedroom on the first floor, and three bedrooms with hallway on the second floor. The upstairs rooms have fabric tacked to the floors. The windows of the sitting room, pantry and downstairs bedroom have bits of lace for curtains. The furniture is also handmade: one walnut rocker and four walnut straight chairs, five straight chairs of softer wood, one walnut sofa covered with green velvet, walnut table top, wooden two wheeled sulky, wooden bucket, leather rocking chair and four matching straight chairs, wooden bowl and three plates, tin saucepan and dustpan, wooden candlesticks, goblet and lid and one object of tin.
1 wooden cart with red cloth seat.
4 red and blue lether chairs.
1 red and blue leather rocking chair.
4 tiny wooden cups.
2 small wooden chairs.
3 wooden chairs of different style.
1 wooden candlestick.
1 metal candlestick.
1 wood cup on stand.
1 wooden tray with square indent in center.
1 model loveseat with green velvet cloth.
Remains of 5 lace curtains.
1 wooden vessel with silver lines.
1 wooden bowl.
1 wooden lid.
3 wooden plates.
3 wooden chairs.
1 metal dust pan.
1 metal pot.
3 paper "posters."
2 top inserts with cloth on floors.
Roof with label.