The Paper Doll's House of Miss Sarah Elizabeth Birdsall Otis, Aged Twelve

by Eric Boman

Book Overview

In 1884, a remarkable twelve-year-old girl made a paper doll's house. While these were fashionable enough at the time, they were usually drawn and painted. Miss Sarah Elizabeth Birdsall Otis, however, chose the medium of collage: scraps of wallpaper, gilded trim, colored-in cut-outs of furniture, and engravings from mail-order catalogs, all glued down unselfconsciously in book form with no regard for scale or realism. What makes the album so special...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500650411
• ISBN13: 9780500650417
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7