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La Venus Hottentote // [The Hottentot Venus].
1814
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Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Metadata
- Call Number
- E East 47/GC077/Box 33/Normal/19th c./Artists Legs-Ly GA 2012.00760
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [1814]
- People
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- Author
- Loftus, George
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Baartman, Sarah—Caricatures and cartoons
- South Africans—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Africans—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Black people—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Khoisan (African people)—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Racism—France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Sexism—France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Indigenous peoples—South Africa—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Pipe smokers—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricature
- Animals—France—Caricatures and cartoons
- Dogs—France—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- La Venus Hottentote // [The Hottentot Venus].
- Call Number
- E East 47/GC077/Box 33/Normal/19th c./Artists Legs-Ly GA 2012.00760
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc7w62fn57b
- Publisher
- [s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [1814]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1814
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 27.2 x 32.1 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Depiction: Caricature portrait. Three men examine Sara Baartman as she stands in profile, nearly naked, smoking a pipe.
- Inscribed in ink, below title [contemporary inscription]: "It is an awful, but positive truth, that this poor wretch went out of the world, without once thinking of her latter end".
- Signed in plate, lower left: [George?--illegible] Loftus del.".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Baartman, Sarah—Caricatures and cartoons
- South Africans—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Africans—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Black people—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Khoisan (African people)—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Racism—France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Sexism—France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Indigenous peoples—South Africa—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Pipe smokers—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Caricature
- Animals—France—Caricatures and cartoons
- Dogs—France—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/31b95f46-b49b-4238-8ff9-26ab677285ac/manifest