“I seen the little lamp”

Title is a quotation from “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield. (WordPress doesn’t know this and suggested I correct the grammar!)

I began my exploration of the National Museum of Denmark in the Dolls House and toy section. There were dozens of wee houses which you could look into from two sides, exposing the social hierarchy.

A group of musicians caught my eye:

As did the ubiquitous Tintin:

Toys for adults included a 17th century silver table centre piece, about 30cm tall, perfect in detail:

At the SMK, National Gallery, this shepherd is knitting a sock, perhaps to remind us that the weather isn’t always as glorious.

Outside the Gallery seats are placed in the water for people to cool their feet.

3 thoughts on ““I seen the little lamp”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s