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Description: | This doll is dressed in the habit of the Sisterhood of St Vincent de Paul, a religious order founded in France in the 16th Century to tend to the sick and the poor. By the time this doll was made in the late 19th or early 20th Century the order had spread throughout Europe and the Americas. The doll has a bisque head and shoulders, fixed black glass eyes, composition limbs and a stuffed cloth body.
Sister of Mercy from Rome doll, with a bisque shoulder head, fixed black eyes and a stuffed cloth body. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Childhood Religion Toys Social history Dolls and Toys | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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