| ..augmented in a perverse way..Huh? I thought the perversity - *if* there is any - was in (what I assume to be) the way the artist manages to give most of the subjects Hispanic features. In other words, I suspect that this was a bit of illustrative ethnic cleansing. [I should say that I'm just not sufficiently familiar with ethnic types of pre-1850 Philippines to be conclusive on this point; nor am I aware to what extent the ethnic groups had by then become 'mixed blood'] But it does look like there's a fair slice of artistic license here. |
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