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Regency plate depicting a lovely Black woman in a series of fashion plates from 1796 in the 'Journal des Luxus und der Moden', published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Georg Melchior Kraus. The Rijksmuseum has confirmed (8/12/20) that the paint color for the woman's skin tone has not oxidized -- the *painter* apparently made a deliberate choice to show a Black woman in fashionable Regency clothing even though the original sketch was likely to have been intended to show a white European woman. Black Regency, Black Representation, 1790s Fashion, Magazine Journal, 1700 Fashion, Transitional Fashion, Regency Era Fashion, African Print Maxi Skirt, 18th Century Paintings

Regency plate depicting a lovely Black woman in a series of fashion plates from 1796 in the 'Journal des Luxus und der Moden', published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Georg Melchior Kraus. The Rijksmuseum has confirmed (8/12/20) that the paint color for the woman's skin tone has not oxidized -- the *painter* apparently made a deliberate choice to show a Black woman in fashionable Regency clothing even though the original sketch was likely to have been intended to show a white European…

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