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.