Love & Beauty,Sartjee the Hottentot Venus,1811,Sarah Baartman,South Africa

Title: Love and beauty--Sartjee the Hottentot Venus
Date Created/Published: [England] : Pubd. October 1811 by Christopher Crupper Rumford, 1811.
Summary: Print shows Sarah Baartman, a South African woman known as the Hottentot Venus, mostly naked, holding a long pole and smoking a pipe. A cupid sits on her exaggerated derriere saying 'Take care of your hearts.'
Notes:
Title from item.
Hand-written below title: N.B. She was the first female ever came over to this Country- & was exhibited at Mr. Wigley's Rooms in Spring Gardens Cockspur St.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, no. 14449.
Mary Dorothy George gives the date for this print as 1822.
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Baartman, Sarah.
Cupids--1810-1820.
Caricatures--British--1810-1820.
Etchings--Hand-colored--1810-1820.
Ethnic stereotypes--1810-1820.
Bookmark /2007680266/
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