Sunday, 20 September 2020

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-54018340

and what else, dazzlenation?...let me see...what a disturbing portrait...and in so many ways....go figure:

On display in Charlecote, a 16th Century house near Stratford-upon-Avon, is a painting from 1680 by Godfrey Kneller that shows Thomas Lucy - then Charlecote's owner - with a black servant.
"We believe it was his black page," said Prof Fowler, who teaches colonial studies at the University of Leicester. "The boy is shown wearing a metal slave collar. We don't know if this collar was real or symbolic."

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