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Dummy boards, silent companions were life-size paintings on flat wood panels, made from the 17th through the 19th century. They were placed in corners and on stairways to surprise visitors, or in front of empty fireplaces in the summer.[1][2][3][4]
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[edit]- ↑ http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O136641/dummy-board-aaron/
- ↑ https://daily.jstor.org/dummy-boards-the-fun-figures-of-the-1600s/
- ↑ https://www.soane.org/exhibitions/fanciful-figures/dummy-boards
- ↑ Tara Hamling & Catherine Richardson, A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700 (Yale, 2017), pp. 227–228.
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