Grand Piano in Drawing Room, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4501-2)

2016 Exhibit
Grand Piano in Drawing Room, The Queens Dolls House postcards (Raphael Tuck 4501-2) (i)
location:
Arch Two , Area 19 Antique and Vintage Dollhouse Miniatures (display)
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==This exhibit is scheduled to go on display during 2016, as part of the museum's 25th anniversary improvements==,

An "Oilette" postcard of "Grand Piano in the Drawing Room", The Queen's Dolls' House (later to be known as Queen Mary's Dolls' House), produced by Raphael Tuck and Sons ("Tuck's Postcards") catalogue number 4501-2. These postcards started to be produced in 1924, when the dollhouse first went on public display.

SERIES II: DRAWING-ROOM AND LIBRARY

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II: 4501: GRAND PIANO IN DRAWING ROOM.

The beautiful saloon occupies the first floor of the garden side of the Queen's Dolls' House and is furnished completely with the utmost taste. The miniature Grand Piano, 3½ inches high, portrayed in the picture, can actually be used, though only fairy fingers could play on it, and its case is beautifully painted and decorated by Thomas Rooke, from a piano painted by Burne Jones. There is a music stool to correspond. Beautiful specimens of diminutive music-scores by contemporary composers are provided

— Raphael Tuck & Sons, Postcard 4501-2, -

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