A very rare Lucy Peck poured wax portrait doll modelled as the young Queen Victoria

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A very rare Lucy Peck poured wax portrait doll modelled as the young Queen Victoria
with fixed blue eyes, inset long light brown hair, stuffed body and wax limbs with elongated hands, dressed as Mary Queen of Scots in contemporary black velvet and silk seventeenth Century style dress, the train lined with cream satin, original pale blue socks and bronze kid shoes -- 32in. (81cm.) high, with maker's oval and square stamps with the Regent Street address, on body
See Colour Plate 13

Provenance

Mrs. Philip S.M. Arbuthnot (b 1881), editor of Queen Mary's Book - A collection of poems and essays by Mary Queen of Scots

Lot Essay

This mould showing the Queen as a young girl may have been created to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Other models show the Queen dressed in her nightgown with her hair flowing down her back, as she was when woken in the night at Kensington Palace to be informed by the Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor of her Uncle's death and therefore her accession to the throne on June 20th 1837.

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