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Figure d'une fille veluë, & d'un enfant noir, faits par la vertu imaginative

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Title taken from caption of woodcut.Image of a hairy woman and a black child.The hairy woman was the result of her mother imagining St. John the Baptist dressed in hair skin. An image of John the Baptist was at the foot of the bed when the hairy child was conceived.The black child was the child to two white parents. However, the mother had a painting of a Moor hanging above her bed, and it was thought that the image of the Moor caused the child to be black.

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  1. Book Illustrations

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