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Doll Rendered by Jane Iverson (artist), c. 1936 watercolor and graphite on paper overall: 53.9 x 41 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.) Index of American Design 1943.8.15542 Not on View |
Here is a handmade cloth doll representing a grandmother knitting a red wool sock. The doll was made by a southern gentlewoman who supported herself after the Civil War by making fine cloth dolls. This was the one-thousandth doll made by this woman.