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No. 5. A Song of a Doll (cont.)

Greenaway, Kate, 1881, Publisher's print
No. 5. A Song of a Doll (cont.)
No. 5. A Song of a Doll (cont.)
No. 5. A Song of a Doll (cont.)
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Item no
40023
Title
No. 5. A Song of a Doll (cont.), a page from 'A Day in a Child's Life'
Description
The final section of the fifth song, A Song of a Doll - a melody line in the treble clef plus piano accompaniment, fills the page.
The words are as follows:
'-found my poor little doll, dears,
As I played on the heath one day;
Folks say she is terribly changed, dears,
For her paint is all washed away,
And her arms trodden off by the cows, dears,
And her hair not the least bit curled:
Yet for old sake's sake she is still, dears,
The prettiest doll in the world,
The prettiest doll in the world.'

In the right-hand corner is a tailpiece of a girl in a early 19th century dress, walking in a patch of landscape. Her face is covered by the brim of her bonnet and a large white handkerchief.
Artist / maker
Date
1881
Size
24.8 x 21.0 cm
Location
Art and Design Library