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A bust of Christ, created by the first Black American woman to work as a professional sculptor, went on display in the entrance hall to Mount Stuart, a Gothic mansion off the west coast of Scotland.

The bust by Edmonia Lewis who lived from 1844 to 1907, was created in 1870 from her studio in Rome, one of the places she lived, The Guardian reports. Lewis died destitute in London and is buried in an unmarked plot there. Until 2015, the bust sat in obscurity in a cupboard at Mount Stuart.

Lewis studied sculpture in Boston and produced sculptures of abolitionists, before moving to Rome, a center of sculpture at the time, according to The Guardian. 

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