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Now You See Me… Now You Don’t
or, a potted history of dummy boards. First appearing in the seventeenth-century, dummy boards are painted (usually on wood) silhouettes of people and occasionally animals (figures 1 & 2). Fig. 1. Eighteenth-century painted pine dummy board depicting a woman of … Continue reading
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