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Children's handkerchief with the nursery rhyme, "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe" [object].

Accession number
PML 88581
Published
[England, ca. 1880]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Cream-colored cotton printed in black, red and blue.
Reproduced the nursery rhyme, "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe" by Mother Goose.
Description
1 handkerchief : cotton, hemmed ; 31 x 33 cm
Provenance
From the collections of Julia P. Wightman.
Summary
Image printed in black of the old woman and thirteen children around an upright shoe flanked by two ladders. The four lines of the nursery rhyme appear in the corners of the image. Decorative borders printed in blue and red.
Classification
Department