Title: Laura de Dianti with a Black Page Creator/Contributor: Aegidius Sadeler II, Flemish, 1568-1629; after Titian, Italian, b. 1488-90, d. 1576 Date: n.d. Contributing Institution: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Vanwege mijn onderzoek beschouw ik afbeeldingen van het Moortje als symbool voor het Blauw bloed van de geportretteerde personen.
Because of my research I consider images of The Moor as symbols for the Blue Blood (=Black Blood) of the portrayed personPosts: 5454 | From: Holland | Registered: Aug 2008
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The Third Duke of Richmond Out Shooting with his Servant Johann Zoffany (c. 1765).
Charles Lennox, third Duke of Richmond is wearing a matching outfit in brown, black canvas spatterdashes or half-gaiters, and an oddly-shaped gold-trimmed, tri-cornered hat. Over the right shoulder he wears (presumably) a hunting pouch and horn on a leather strap, and over the other hangs a large mesh game bag. Note the servant's dress; blue velvet coat trimmed in red, red waistcoat and buckskin breeches.
Note that the dog, a small, tri-colored spaniel, has his tail docked -- still a common practice for this breed today.
In spite of this description with a named ‘Black Servant’ I would still maintain that this is an imaginary Moor. He looks like other Moors who are usually shown smaller then the main person. This portrait shows two symbols of Nobility: A Moor, and the Hunt, which was a jealously protected privilege of the European Nobles. Posts: 5454 | From: Holland | Registered: Aug 2008
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Louise de Kerouaille. Noble French mistress of Charles II Stuart. The Moor, a little girl in similar fashions, offers her coral and pearls. These seem to symbolise the riches from Europe.Posts: 5454 | From: Holland | Registered: Aug 2008
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Louise de Kerouaille. Noble French mistress of Charles II Stuart. The Moor, a little girl in similar fashions, offers her coral and pearls. These seem to symbolise the riches from Europe.
"Louise" is a lot browner than that "Stuart" and quit daydreaming you're never going to have some of that delicious Mauritius Posts: 3423 | From: the jungle - when y'all stop playing games, call me. | Registered: Jul 2006
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Lettering bottom of image: [left] [illegible - lettering partly covered by present mount] [centre, diagonally, on base edge of plinth] J Reynolds pinx [right, on plinth] Cinge Tempora Floribus / Suave olentis Amarae [?] / Adtis O Hymenae Hymen / Hymen O Hymenaee [sic] / Elizabetha Keppel Comitis Albemarliae Filia / Regiis Nuptiis Adsuit 1761 [far right] E. Fisher scul [partly covered by present mount]
A granddaughter of Baroness Gertrude Quirina van der Duyn (1674-1741), a sister of Baron Aarnood Joost van der Duyn, who was described by Baroness Belle van Zuylen as ‘Brown Black of Complexion.’ Elizabeth, Marquise of Tavistock, was an ancestor of Camilla Parker Bowles, Prince Charles' second wife. Posts: 5454 | From: Holland | Registered: Aug 2008
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Albert de Monaco et Madame Nicole Coste. Prince Albert avec son fils naturel, Alexandre CostePosts: 5454 | From: Holland | Registered: Aug 2008
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The future King and Queen of Holland, in Ghana: HRH William-Alexander and HRH Princess Maxima of Argentina, The Prince and Princess of Orange.Posts: 5454 | From: Holland | Registered: Aug 2008
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SIR FRANCIS DRAKE SHOWING OFF HIS DRAKE JEWEL, A BATCH OF BLACKNESS WHICH IS HIS BLUE BLOOD: THE PROFILE OF A MOOR (AFRICA) ECLIPSING THAT OF A WHITE WOMAN (EUROPE). NOTE HIS FRIZZY HAIR AND BLACK SKIN ON THE PRINT. THE PAINTED PORTRAIT IS WHITENED
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and quit daydreaming you're never going to have some of that delicious Mauritius 
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