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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.
Full-length drawing of a woman (Sarah Baartman) with exaggerated buttocks.