Product Description
The enchanting dollhouses, miniature kitchens, and toy shops at the Abby Aldrich Folk Art Museum are shown in this lovely book from Colonial Williamsburg Publications. Information from nineteenth-century toy catalogs and experience as a maker of miniatures enabled the author to write about these toys in detail. The attractive photography brings them to life. 86 pages; 181 color photographs; 18 black-and-white photographs. Written by Susan Hight Rountree.
Visitors to the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg encounter the memorable Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art collection, which includes a fine collection of miniatures. The winsome charm of the antique toys on display there can also provide remarkable historical insights. But perhaps more than anything else, they represent a child's view of the adult world, albeit one in which the young one fantasizes about moving about as if already grown up. Collectors will appreciate the documentation this book provides, with numerous color photographs depicting finely crafted miniature objects in ceramic, glass, textiles, various woods, and metals. More recent items, such as tiny oil paintings, embellish some of the pictured rooms, while Rountree's text offers informed context for viewing these enthralling artifacts.
