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A similar drawing in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, titled ‘Study of a Young Mulatto Girl, full face’, references a now-outdated term referring to a person of mixed black and white descent. The model in both drawings is thought to be Fanny Eaton (1835-1924), a young model of Jamaican and white British heritage known for her Afro-textured black hair, to which Sandys was particularly drawn. Eaton also sat for Rossetti, Millais, Albert Moore and Simeon Solomon. 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