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Hottentot Venus (Sarah "Saartjie" Baartmann)Arrived from London, and will be exhibited for a few days…that most wonderful Phenomenon of nature… Colchester: Swinborne and Walter, ca. 1811 Broadside (243 x 194 mm). Numerous fonts, mounted on card; old folds, foxed, faint marginal dampstaining. Mounted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas; not examined out of frame. "The first major ethnological attraction of the nineteenth century featured a Khoi-san woman from South Africa. The Afrikaaner [sic] who brought her to London in 1810 called her Saartjie, or Sarah Baartmann, and she was exhibited in London as 'The Hottentot Venus.' 'Hottentot' was a term used to designate a tribe of a low cultural order, thought to be the 'missing link' between humans and apes" (Jay 68). Controversial in the nineteenth century, Saartjie is much studied today. REFERENCE:EE, pp. 68-69Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.