A black-and-white etching on paper, an art form that has been around for 500 years. A portrait of a woman. In the background, probably some kind of domestic interior. A simple title, American Girl.

A remarkably unique 17th-century double portrait depicting a Black and white woman side-by-side as equals ... historic mansion Compton Verney for its art gallery in Warwickshire, England.

“This anonymous painting is a great rarity in British art, as a mid-seventeenth-century work that depicts a black woman and a white woman with equal status. It is not a portrait of real ...