Queen's Dolls' House Correspondence
Abstract
The Queen's Dolls' House was created between 1921 and 1924 as a gift from the British people to their monarch. The project was organized by Princess Marie Louise, a cousin of the king, who solicited artists, authors,and craftsmen for donations for the various rooms and furnishings. The majority of this collection is 396 letters addressed to the Princess Marie Louise by artists who had been invited to contribute works for the print files in the library of the dollhouse. These letters accompanied the submitted drawings, paintings, and prints. There are also eight literary works, mostly n typscript, to be written into books for the library. There are also sketches of the royal monogram, used for a frieze on the edges of the book shelves in the library, by Edwin Lutyens, the prominent architect who designed the house and coordinated much of the physical work of its construction and assembly.
Dates
- Creation: 1922 - 1923
Creator
- Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir (Architect, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
1 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Adams, Chris (Person)
- Armington, Frank Milton (Person)
- Alsop, J. J. (Person)
- Allen, William Herbert (Person)
- Anderson, Stanley (Person)
- Armington, Caroline Helena (Person)
- Adams, William Dacres (Person)
- Adams, Harry William (Person)
- Aldin, Cecil Charles Windsor (Person)
- Alexander, Herbert (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Art
- Artists -- Great Britain -- 20th century
- Authors
- Authors, English -- Great Britain -- 20th century
- Doll furniture
- Drawing, British -- 20th century
- Engraving, British -- 20th century
- Graphic artists -- Great Britain -- 20th century
- Literature
- Miniature objects
- Miniature painting
- Models and modelmaking
- Painting
- Prints, British -- 20th century
- Queens -- Great Britain
- Watercolor painting, British -- 20th century
- Title
- Queen's Dolls' House Correspondence
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Marianne Hansen
- Date
- Nov. 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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