In the seventeenth-century, Dutch doll’s houses looked like cupboards, not houses. This one resembles a cabinet; a cupboard set on legs, with doors. The cupboard originally had curtains. This can be seen in a painting that was made of the doll’s house around 1710. The painting shows that the interior of the house has remained much the same. The main difference being that the house in the painting is inhabited by more than twenty dolls, made to scale. Only one baby doll has survived. Two of the rooms were altered slightly during the eighteenth century: there used to be a garden beyond the entrance hall, and the tapestry room was once shrouded in mourning.
