Wood ledge puppet of an eighteenth century man

Man in 18th-century-style clothes. Carved in four pieces (only head and right arm carved in the round); sophisticated system of metal fixtures attaching the pieces; not painted.

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

1800-1899

DM number: P07.01

Box: 22

France

Purchased by Brander Matthews in Paris

"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.

Puppets (recreational artifacts)

wood

9" (12" incl rod)