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Robert Cooper
active 1795-1836
Female from the interior of Africa / Tresham del. ; Cooper sculp.
Published
[London] : [Richard Phillips] [1810]
etching
plate mark: 226 x 138 mm; sheet: 239 x 145 mm
Peel 1944
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Plate illustrating an anonymously published article purporting to present a scientific description of Sarah Baartman (1789-1815), titled "Upon a singular variety of the human species," which appeared in: The medical and physical journal, volume XXIV, number 141, November 1810, page 385 (facing).
Sarah (or "Saartjie") Baartman was a Khoikhoi woman born circa 1788 near Cape Town, South Africa. She was brought to Britain in 1810 by her employer, Hendrik Cesars, and the English doctor William Dunlop, where she was exhibited for financial gain and subsequently sold in 1814 to animal trainer S. Reaux, who exhibited her in Paris under increasingly degrading circumstances before her death in 1815.
Plate illustrating an anonymously published article purporting to present a scientific description of Sarah Baartman (1789-1815), titled "Upon a singular variety of the human species," which appeared in: The medical and physical journal, volume XXIV, number 141, November 1810, page 385 (facing).
Sarah (or "Saartjie") Baartman was a Khoikhoi woman born circa 1788 near Cape Town, South Africa. She was brought to Britain in 1810 by her employer, Hendrik Cesars, and the English doctor William Dunlop, where she was exhibited for financial gain and subsequently sold in 1814 to animal trainer S. Reaux, who exhibited her in Paris under increasingly degrading circumstances before her death in 1815.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Full-length drawing of a woman (Sarah Baartman) with exaggerated buttocks.
Associated names
Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814, illustrator.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
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