A pair of broad bottoms [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London?]
[Walker Cornhill?]
[November 1810?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored, on wove paper ; sheet 35 x 25 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 8, no. 11578A

Notes:

Artist and imprint information based on a close copy with same title and same dialogue with misspellings. Cf. George, no. 11578.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Grosvenor Prints; July 2008; Acquisitions no.: 2008-7-18-39.
Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
Collector's stamp on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below.

Abstract:

An African woman known as 'Sartje' or the Hottentot Venus stands, left, in profile, a smoking pipe in her mouth and tall staff in her right hand. She has an enormous posterior and stands nude except for a pair of garters around her calves, a thin girdle round her waist, a beaded headdress and beaded necklace. Grenville stands behind her but looks back over his shoulder at her. Dressed in formal court dress, he too is depicted with an enormous posterior. Grenville says: Well I never expected Broad Bottoms from Africa! but one should never dispair! Mind Sherry dont let your Fireey nose touch the Venus for if theres any conbustibls about her we shall be blown up!!" In his pocket is a paper inscribed Chaselor [sic]. Between them, half-kneeling, Sheridan measures her bottom using a compass and answers: I shall be carefull your Lordship! but such a spanker it beats your Lordship's hollow."

Associated Names:

Heath, William, 1795-1840 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Africans -- England
Baartman, Sarah
Great Britain. Court of Chancery
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Khoikhoi (African people) -- Caricature and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Wilson, Minto

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1810
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1810
Watermarks (Paper) -- J Whatman

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

810.11.00.01+

Orbis Record:

8272849

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr30771

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

15810258

PID:

digcoll:2781111