print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.6.22
- Title
- Object: Love and Beauty - Sartjee the Hottentot Venus
- Description
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The 'Venus' stands in profile to the right holding her tall pole and smoking a pipe, giving a coy sideways glance. She is nude with the accustomed trapping and wears a patterned skull cap with a bead tassel. On her posterior a cupid sits astride, aiming his arrow downwards and to the right; he says: Take care of your Hearts!! October 1822
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1822
- Dimensions
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Height: 288 millimetres
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Width: 218 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
For Sartjee see vols, viii, ix. She died in Paris, 1815, see No. 12636.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.6.22
