In previous posts you may have realized that Penny
1) has a definite tendency to buy colonial dresses
but
2) does not have a colonial period doll!
Mary Royall is now going to fill that void. Her character comes from a John Singleton Copley painting of the Royall sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, created around 1758. The exquisite oil painting now lives in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
From the MFA website "[Copley's] portrait of Mary and Elizabeth Royall is even rarer for showing two children, the teenaged daughters of Isaac Royall, of Medford (near Boston), Massachusetts, one of the wealthiest merchants in New England..."
(There is more on the website, but I didn't want to infringe on any copyrights....Feel free to visit www.mfa.org and search for "Royall"!)
So instead of Mary Royall being forever trapped in an oil painting, she has come out in doll format to have fun in the "real" world.
Here we see her in a Dollies' Dressmaker blue striped work gown. Penny has wanted this gown for awhile but had a difficult time justifying it's purchase since we already have 300000 colonial gowns but no doll. But now we do have a doll! Maybe someday we should get a doll to be her sister Elizabeth? Hmmmm...more dolls....How crazy are we?
