victorianclassicantique: Mrs Neave’s dolls’ house Object: Dolls’ house Place of origin: England, Great Britain (made) Date: ca. 1840 (made) Artist/Maker: unknown (production) Materials and Techniques: Painted wood The house was bought from Mrs Neave of Cotham, Newark-on-Trent, in 1930. It dates from about 1840 but little is known about its origin. It is a snapshot of an early Victorian interior. Of particular interest is the nursery which, by this time, is a more comfortable, much less formal room than before, where a new mother would receive visitors to the new-born baby in some comfort as well as style. The exterior has pointed Gothic windows, an unusual feature in a dolls’ house. The rooms are badly proportioned, and the full scale wallpaper and carpets emphasize this. Nonetheless the house conveys an atmosphere of undisturbed early Victorian domestic idyll.

victorianclassicantique:

Mrs Neave’s dolls’ house

  • Object:

    Dolls’ house

  • Place of origin:

    England, Great Britain (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1840 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Painted wood

    The house was bought from Mrs Neave of Cotham, Newark-on-Trent, in 1930. It dates from about 1840 but little is known about its origin. It is a snapshot of an early Victorian interior. Of particular interest is the nursery which, by this time, is a more comfortable, much less formal room than before, where a new mother would receive visitors to the new-born baby in some comfort as well as style. The exterior has pointed Gothic windows, an unusual feature in a dolls’ house. The rooms are badly proportioned, and the full scale wallpaper and carpets emphasize this. Nonetheless the house conveys an atmosphere of undisturbed early Victorian domestic idyll.