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A dollhouse or doll's house is a toy house made in miniature. Since the early 20th century, dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children, but their collection and crafting is also a hobby for
Tudor style doll's house circa 1930
The Nostell Doll's House in West Yorkshire, England, This one-of-a kind miniature house was handcrafted in the 1730s. As that time, doll's houses were not considered to be toys; rather, they were called "baby houses" and used to teach girls how to run a household.
A 17th century Nuremberg, Germany dollhouse
Dutch cabinet dollhouse of Petronella de la Court, Amsterdam 1670-1690 on display at Centraal Museum
Petronella Oortman
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Petronella Oortman was a Dutch woman whose elaborate dollhouse is part of the permanent collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Dollhouse
…in the Frans Hals Museum, and one is in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; the dollhouse of Petronella de la Court in Centraal Museum, and the dollhouse of Petronella Oortman in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum estimates that Petronella Oortman spent twenty to thirty thousand guilders on her miniature house, which…
The dollhouse in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
The dollhouse, painted by Jacob Appel, 1710.