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Mlle Brocard as Amy Robsart, Countess of Leicester in 'Kenilworth' 1831
Wood, silk, velvet, feather | 17.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 72360
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Mlle Brocard as Amy Robsart, Countess of Leicester in 'Kenilworth' 1831
Royal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III 2022. Photograph: Museum of London
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Female doll; wooden; jointed; wearing a broad brimmed black velvet hat with white feather and coarse woven silk green long-sleeved dress with silk braid trim at waist and hem. The dress is deliberately long compared with others in the group, to indicate a riding habit.
Provenance
As a child, Princess Victoria (later Queen) made over one hundred dolls with the help of her governess Baroness Louise Lehzen. Most of these dolls survive in the Royal Collection today, after having been carefully packed away by the Princess once she reached her fourteenth birthday. Some dolls represent historic figures or friends of the Princess, but most represent characters from the ballet and from the opera, which Princess Victoria attended regularly, making notes on the various costumes worn, and drawing them once she returned to Kensington Palace. These drawings were then used to help design the dolls' outfits. This doll represents the dancer Mlle Brocard dressed as Amy Robsart, Countess of Leicester, in the ballet, 'Kenilworth'.
In the 1894 article on Queen Victoria's dolls, this doll had a broad-brimmed black velvet hat with white feather. -
Medium and techniques
Wood, silk, velvet, feather
Measurements
17.0 cm (whole object)