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
Daily journal, Gentleman's and tradesman's complete annual accompt-book, Court and city director, for the year ..., and Annual register, or, Court and city director, for ...
Description:
Subtitle varies, <1760>: " ... to which is added, the Annual register, or, court and city director, for ...", Description based on: 1757., and Annotated throughout by a father and then a son. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed ... for R. Baldwin
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Account books, Diaries (Blank-books), and Officials and employees
"Stylised representation of the Lord Mayor's procession, framing a blank space in the centre of the sheet; two rows of figures at the top, 7 groups one above the other to either side, and the City Counsel on foot, the Aldermen and Lord Mayor on horseback forming the bottom of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., "No. 79"--Lower right corner., The 35 numbered sections of the procession zigzag doen the sheet beginning with the 1) Armourers, 2) Leathersellers, 3) Pioneers, 4) Granadiers [sic], [4] Artillery, 5-6) 2d Division, 7-8) 3d Division, 9-10) Salters, 11-12) Salters, 13-14) Slaters, 15-16) Coopers, 17-18) Coopers, 19-20) Band of Petitionsers, 21-22) Kings Trumpets &c., 23-24) Coopers, 25-26) Coopers, 27-28) City Musick, 29-30) Officers, 31-32) Officers, 33-34) City Counsel, Aldermen, Lord Mayor., and Blank space at center of print has been filled in with manuscript poetry given the heading 'Christmas' at top and signed and dated by "John Lewis, 1742" at bottom. The first of the three sections of verse is taken from the second and third cantos of Waller's Of divine love; the other quotations are from the Fourth Eclogue of John Ogilby's seventeenth-century translation of Virgil.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament Novemr. the 4th, 1742, and sold by James Cole engraver in Great Kirby Street, Hatton Garden
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Willimott, Robert, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
Officials and employees, City council members, Coopers, Mayors, Municipal officials, Musicians, Occupations, Parades & processions, Soldiers, and British
