Hand-carved Articulated Mannequin with Bright Eyes and Two Mended (Now Stiff!) Joints victorian brush My guess would be that

My guess would be that it was made by a student at the school

RI who bought the island of Cuttyhunk in 1693 and whose family continued to live on it for many generations

framed in two slightly imperfect black ink squares and captioned with handwritten text on either side asking 'Lequel est mon portrait

as a happily unmarried woman in her late 40's

a pretty cool thing

Hand-carved Articulated Mannequin with Bright Eyes and Two Mended (Now Stiff!) Joints victorian brush My guess would be thatThis hand carved articulated mannequin has lived a life, with traces of what was surely a fuller head of hair on her pate, one bum knee, and one bum elbow too! But still she stands tall, and on her own (if stood in a stable position) and what a lot of time and care and skill went into making her. (And, to me, those huge eyes seem as if seeing straight into one's soul!) Stamped what looks like "Weber" on the back of her hips, which has not lead me