print
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.3712
- Title
- Object: Sartjee, the Hottentot Venus.
- Description
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Whole-length portrait of Saartjie Baartman, naked but for decorations such as beads, fringes, a patterned cap, shoes and a sheepskin mantle over her right shoulder; directed to left and with head in profile to left, but turning away to be seen partly from behind, wearing face-paint and smoking a pipe, holding a long pole in her outstretched left hand. 1810
Aquatint with etching
- Production date
- 1810
- Dimensions
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Height: 357 millimetres
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Width: 221 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Hendrick Cezar, the publisher named here, was one of the men who secured Baartman as a performer in the Cape, and became her showman when she arrived in London in 1810. This is an impression from a worn and reworked plate; for an earlier state and further information, see reg. no. 1872,0713.141.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007 Mar-Jun, London, National Portrait Gallery, 'Between Worlds:...'
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.3712
