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Life-size painted wooden cut-out figures of soldiers, serving maids, children and animals stand in dark corners of some museums and country houses. This book presents their true origins in seventeenth century 'Trompe l'oeil' painting and discusses the purposes to which they were put.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Dummy Boards and Chimney Boards
- Original publication date
- 1988
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- Dummy boards are life-size, flat, wooden figures painted and shaped in outline to resemble soldiers, servants, children and other forms of human and animal life. (Introduction)
Construction of the figures was broadly standardised. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Jane Austen's novel was published in 1811 but even the revelation of such a useful secondary purpose could not arrest the decline in the use of the chimney board by this date.
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