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1. A pair of broad bottoms [graphic].
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [November 1810?]
- Call Number:
- 810.11.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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."
- Description:
- Title from item/, Artist and imprint information based on a close copy with same title and same dialogue with misspellings. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 11578., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill., and Collector's stamp on verso: half-length raised figure of fox with initials MW below.
- Publisher:
- Walker Cornhill?
- Subject (Name):
- Baartman, Sarah, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Great Britain. Court of Chancery
- Subject (Topic):
- Officials and employees, Khoikhoi (African people), Africans, and England
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A pair of broad bottoms [graphic].
2. Double bass proposals for six practical duets adapted to any instrument / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 June 1813]
- Call Number:
- 813.06.21.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men, elderly and grotesque, stand one on each side of a double-bass, playing it simultaneously with great vigour; one (right) is left-handed. Behind the instrument stands a violinist, holding up fiddle and bow in his right hand, giving an agonized scream and stopping his ear with his finger. In the foreground lies a large open music-book: 'Double Bass Hum strum diddle dum'. On the wall is a picture of a little chimneysweep flourishing two brushes like drum-sticks behind the Hottentot Venus (see British Museum satires No. 11577), who capers along, pipe in one hand, staff in the other, her much-exaggerated posterior serving as a drum. A vase of flowers stands on a wall-bracket.'
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. June 21t 1813 by H Humphrey, St. James's Street London
- Subject (Topic):
- Khoikhoi (African people), Chimney sweeps, Dance, Double basses, Floor coverings, Musicians, and Violins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Double bass proposals for six practical duets adapted to any instrument / [graphic]
