Black African holding sundial at Dunham Massey Hall , near Altrincham Cheshire England , UK WA14 4SJ. BLM, Black Statue, Do Black Lives Matter?

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File under: BLM, Black Statue, Do Black Lives Matter. Figures (including those of other races) like this one, represented the four continents as they were defined in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. By extension they would then stand for ‘the known world’. Statue / Sundial is attributed to Andries Carpentière or Jan van Nost

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Size: 3399px × 3000px
Location: Dunham Massey Hall , near Altrincham Cheshire England , UK WA14 4SJ
Photo credit: © Tony Smith / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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