Elegant eighteenth-century female marionette

Wearing gown of white, green, gold, with lace and embroidery.

Conservation assessment: Stable

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

1870-1899

DM number: P05.09

Box: 7

France

Purchased by Brander Matthews from De Vere in Paris, 1925

"Marionettes in Museums of the United States," in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes. Edited by Paul McPharlin, 23-28. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930.; "Set of Puppets Acquired in Paris, 1867, by Brander Matthews when he was sixteen" (image), in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes, edited by Paul McPharlin, 54. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930.; Spaulding, Jean, "Masks and Marionettes," Institute Magazine Dec. 1929: 12-13, 28-29.; Bell, John. "Puppets and 'The Iconography of Drama': The Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University." in American Puppetry. Edited by Phyllis T. Dircks, 105-117. New York: McFarland and Company, 2004.

Marionettes (stringed puppets)

wood, cloth

15"