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Tasmanian artist creates sandstone convict cottage doll’s house in astonishing detail
An interest in history and a “burning need to do things in a little too much detail” inspired artist and conservator Effie Pryer to make an exact replica of an 1848 sandstone cottage as a doll’s house.
Key points:
- For the last four years art conservator Effie Pryer has been building an 1848 replica sandstone cottage in miniature
- The same materials and techniques used originally are being used to create the tiny doll’s house
- Pryer’s ancestors would have been convict labour in similar houses
Pryer’s inspiration came from the historic township up the Derwent River from Hobart, near Brighton.
“I used to live in Pontville surrounded by all the beautiful sandstone buildings.
“I would look over at the houses on the river with their neat little…
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