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Fireboard

Panel to cover a fireplace during warm months of the year

Summary

Panel to cover a fireplace during warm months of the year

NOTOC A fireboard or chimney board is a panel designed to cover a fireplace during the warm months of the year. It was "commonly used during the later 18th and early 19th centuries" in places like France and New England. In warm weather, "a fireboard effectively reduced the number of mosquitoes and other insects, or even birds, that might enter a house through an open, damperless chimney." The "board or shutterlike contrivance" typically "of wood or cast of sheet metal" is "frequently decorated with painting and stencilling." Some fireboards have notches cut out of the lowest edge to accommodate andirons. Fireboards are also called: chimney boards, chimney pieces, chimney stops, fire boards, summer boards.

Among the many artists who have produced ornamental fireboards: Robert Adam; Winthrop Chandler (1747–1790); Charles Codman; Jean-Baptiste Oudry; Historic New England; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; Peabody Essex Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum.

Images

Image:Fireboard view of Chatsworth Derbyshire byMicheleFeliceCorne.png|Fireboard with view of Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England, by M.F. Corné Image:Fireboard ca1825 NorthSunderlandMassachusetts SPNEA.png|Fireboard decorated with trompe-l'oeil image of a fireplace and mantel, ca.1825 (Historic New England) Image:Cat and canary fireboard ca1830s CooperHewittMuseum.png|Cat and Canary fireboard, France, ca.1830-1840 (Cooper Hewitt Museum) Image:The Great Gale of 1846.jpg|Great Gale of 1846 fireboard (Peabody Essex Museum) Image:1918 fireboard byGrandmaMoses.png|Fireboard by Grandma Moses, 1918 Image:1936 Banister House Brookfield Massachusetts LC HABS MA345 076888pu detail.jpg|Banister House, Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA (photo 1936) (Library of Congress)

References

References

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  2. Betsy Krieg Salm. (2010). "Women's Painted Furniture, 1790-1830: American Schoolgirl Art". University Press of New England.
  3. Jane C. Nylander. (1994). "Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860". Yale University Press.
  4. Russell Sturgis. (1901). "A Dictionary of Architecture and Building". Macmillan Company.
  5. Clare Graham. (2008). "Dummy Boards and Chimney Boards". Osprey Publishing.
  6. "Collections Database". Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium.
  7. (1992). "American Naive Paintings". Oxford University Press.
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