Favorite Ever 19th Century Handmade Paper Doll with Three Dresses and Two Hats schoolgirl drawing nautical materials for a massive

nautical materials for a massive sum

tiny but teeming with life

Bailey"  with the first name perhaps being Kate

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Favorite Ever 19th Century Handmade Paper Doll with Three Dresses and Two Hats schoolgirl drawing nautical materials for a massiveI do believe this is my favorite paper doll I have ever found, and I've found a lot of them. I very much appreciate ones of the more elaborate and skillfully rendered sort, with lots and lots of fancy outfits, but it is a doll like this, with very naive (and very very expressive!) graphite drawn face, that for me is the best of all. And then these hats! And the excellent cut paper patterns applied to the blocky dresses to my eye pure and simple