Dummy Board
- Title:
- Dummy board
- Object Name:
- Dummy Board
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1720-1750
- Material:
- European Scots pine (by microanalysis)
- Dimensions:
- H-24 W-18 D-10.5 inches
- Description:
- Painted board cut-out of seated woman sewing a shirt; wearing a red jacket, white cap and scarf, dark skirt; seated in a square-backed chair; made of two vertical boards; 3 braces on back; small section at left missing; row of nail holes at bottom, one rose-head nail left.
- Provenance:
- Supposedly found in Newington. The story was that it is supposed to have been a portrait of Elizabeth Janvrin Adams, wife of Rev. Joseph Adams, but this is unlikely.
Dummy boards were a Continental and English conceit in the 17th and 18th centuries. Used as fireboards or simply as decorative items. - Subjects:
- Dummy board figures, Paintings
- Place of Origin:
- Probably England
- Collection Name:
- Art Artifacts Collection
- Item Number:
- C08.517
- Accession Number:
- C08.517
- Type of Material:
- Objects
- Copyright Statement:
- For information regarding copyright, permissions, and reproductions contact the Portsmouth Athenaeum
- Credit Line:
- Portsmouth Athenaeum
- Participating Organization:
- Portsmouth Athenaeum
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