What a 19th-Century Watercolour of The English Landscape Can Tell Us About The Legacy of Slavery Today
And why I can't look at a J.M.W. Turner painting the same way again
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This watercolour sketch from 1799 depicts a bucolic scene in the English countryside. It’s typical of the Romantic era of painting in its rugged depiction of an idealised landscape.
But this paintin…