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Standing Girl with a Basket of Apples

Photo credit: National Trust Images

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This wooden painted figure standing alone is a girl wearing a lace ruff, a lace-edged bonnet and an apron. She has a basket of fruit and walnuts on her left arm and a single fruit in her left hand. These types of pictures are not really paintings but furniture and are called dummy boards or, to quote Vita Sackville-West, 'silent companions'. They were usually found greeting guests in the entrance halls of houses, or were used as firescreens.

National Trust, Chirk Castle

Chirk

Title

Standing Girl with a Basket of Apples

Date

mid-17th C

Medium

oil on wood

Measurements

H 106.5 x W 49.5 cm

Accession number

117015.2

Acquisition method

purchased, 1994

Work type

Painting

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National Trust, Chirk Castle

Chirk, Wrexham (Wrecsam) LL14 5AF Wales

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