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Colonial Imaginary No.1 centers on a portrait of Robert Melvill—the first British Governor of Grenada following the island’s transfer from French to British control in 1763—painted by Scottish artist Henry Raeburn. Melvill’s likeness, on loan to Paxton House from the National Galleries of Scotland, is overlaid with a French colonial map of Grenada, creating a visual tension between competing imperial claims. Beneath it, Adam Callander’s rendering of the Paraclete plantation—partially owned by Ninian Home between 1764 and 1776—grounds the image in the brutal economic realities of Caribbean plantation life. Together, these layers expose the aesthetic and administrative apparatus of colonial authority.
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As low as 10 interest-free monthly payments of £180.00 and no deposit.Colonial Imaginary No. 1 centers on a portrait of Robert Melvill — the first British Governor of Grenada following the island’s transfer from French to British control in 1763 —...Colonial Imaginary No. 1 centers on a portrait of Robert Melvill — the first British Governor of Grenada following the island’s transfer from French to British control in 1763 — painted by Scottish artist Henry Raeburn. Melvill’s likeness, on loan to Paxton House from the National Galleries of Scotland, is overlaid with a French colonial map of Grenada, creating a visual tension between competing imperial claims. Beneath it, Adam Callander’s rendering of the Paraclete plantation — partially owned by Ninian Home between 1764 and 1776 — grounds the image in the brutal economic realities of Caribbean plantation life. Together, these layers expose the aesthetic and administrative apparatus of colonial authority.
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