Anne Scott Doll Collection, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland c1956

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Anne Scott Doll Collection, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland c1956

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27 dolls

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Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections Centre

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Glasgow school of art

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Scott, Anne., fl. 1956-2002

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In 1956, when he was deputy director of the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, Sir Harry Barnes commissioned Anne Scott to produce a collection of dolls. The dolls are intended to symbolise various figures from Scottish and British History, and were on long-term display within the School. They were then used as as a teaching aid in Glasgow School of Art's Embroidered and Woven Textile Department. Each doll would have originally been part of a smaller group of three or four fi...