"ashton street" blog posts
The Hidden Story of Anna Ashton![Anna Ashton, later Mrs Thomas Case, c.1769 by Joseph Wright of Derby. (oil on canvas) VG&M Collection](https://vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/victoriagalleryandmuseum/blog/Anna,Ashton,1.jpg)
![Anna Ashton, later Mrs Thomas Case, c.1769 by Joseph Wright of Derby. (oil on canvas) VG&M Collection](https://vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/victoriagalleryandmuseum/blog/Anna,Ashton,1.jpg)
The Hidden Story of Anna Ashton
Anna Ashton was from a wealthy Liverpool family of the 1760s but poses here as a shepherdess complete with lamb. There is nothing obvious that links this rather charming portrait to the Transatlantic slave trade, but that is the hidden story.
Posted on: 19 August 2022