Queen Mary's Dolls' House: The Dining Room (coloured photo)

The Dining Room. This photograph, to the eyes of the uninitiated, is that of a full-sized room. But the measurements are 42 1/4 inches long, 20 inches wide, 15 inches high; the chairs stand exactly 3 inches high and the table 2 1/2 inches. The portrait of the Prince of Wales, over the mantelpiece, is by Mr Munnings; the group at the end of the room, a copy of Winterhalter's "Queen Victoria, the Prince Consort, and Family", by Mr Ambrose McEvoy; the portraits on each side of the fireplace, "Edward III" and "James V of Scotland", are by Sir William Llewellyn. The ceiling is by Professor Gerald Moira. Illustration for Everybody's Book of The Queen's Dolls' House edited by A C Benson and Sir Lawrence Weaver (Daily Telegraph and Methuen, 1924). Queen Mary's Dolls' House is a doll's house built in the early 1920s, completed in 1924, for Queen Mary, the wife of King George V. It is kept at Windsor Castle. The photographs of all rooms and general views were taken by Country Life, most of those of details by Alexander Corbett [1869-1935].