George III Style Painted Wood Box-Back Doll's House and Accessories, Early Twentieth Century, Fitted on a Neoclassical Style Mahogany Cart. The house in two stories, painted on the front to simulate stone and with a panelled door, the back of the house brick and the sides cedar shakes, bail carrying handles, the glass windows hung with curtains, three hinged doors on the back providing access for the child and opening to the rooms comprising on the first floor a hallway, kitchen and drawing room, and on the second floor a hallway, bedroom and dressing room, a door on each side for the dolls' entry and exit, and with a door in the roof opening to the attic, each room fitted with accessories.Doll's house: H: 35.375 in., W: 33.25 in., D: 19.25 in.Cart: H: 25.875 in., W: 34.5 in., D: 20.75 in.Exhibited: "Dolls' Houses - Old and New," Wenham Historical Association & Museum, Inc., Wenham, Massachusetts, June 15 - September 2, 1990, n. 28.Literature: The exhibition listing included a description of the house written by the lender: "This house was found some 40 years ago in an antique store in Maine and has been with a Hamilton (Massachusetts) family ever since and before that in New York City. All the paint both inside and out is original, as is the wallpaper and velvet carpeting. The curtains and a few assorted pieces of furniture came with the house, my favorite being the tin and curtained shower in the upstairs dressing room.Some of the furniture I had as a child in my own doll house, which unfortunately burned in a fire almost 50 years ago. The rest of the furniture, china, and objets d'art have been collected over the years. The yellow blanket on the bed was made by my granddaughter when she was nine. The oil painting hanging in the bedroom was painted by my son. It's a view from my own bedroom window. Mary Louise Ryus.".

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35.375 x 33.25 x 19.25 in