27" A JENNY DOLL CLOTH CANADIAN BALLERINA DOLL, SILK VICTORIAN COSTUME, TAG

quote: Her name is Victoria. I bought the pattern for her in 1981 from Canadian Living Magazine. She was an exclusive design for the magazine by Canadian doll artist Judy Pilgrim Stewart who was the designer of a line of dolls called Jenny Dolls.

There was an article in the magazine about Judy and her dolls. Apparently she was a prolific designer and at the time the article was written she had produced 1,394 dolls and her inventory was growing at a rate of 60 a year!!!!

She graduated from the University of Manitoba after studying textiles, costume design and art history. Her studio was in the attic of a rambling old house on the bank's of Winnipeg's Red River. She first started making dolls in 1967 with hand painted faces and meticulously researched period clothing... unquote    a true Canadian doll artist.. The costuming is beautiful and has silk puff sleeves in blue and a net crinoline in blue.... You learn something new every day with the doll world.... She is signed on her back, all cloth A Jenny doll , dressed in reproduction  19th century inspired silk ballerina costume.. so well done.  filed 12 2020 inv