1810 Gallery

Saartje Baartman, also known as The Hottentot Venus

Saartje ('Sarah') Baartman (1789-1815), also known as The Hottentot Venus - an African servant girl from South Africa's Eastern Cape of the Khoisan tribe brought to London in 1810 & exhibited at freak shows and private events there and in Paris, where she died 1815, with sections of her body preserved and displayed at Paris's Museum of Man (until 1974). Her remains were repartriated to South Africa and re-interred in 2002. Date: 1811

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Proliferating avens from the Pyrenean Mountains

Proliferating avens from the Pyrenean Mountains. Illustration from Dr John Hill, Verhandeling over de verdubbeling van bloemen... Uit het engelsch vertaald. / Verhandlung over de oorsprong en aankweeking van prolifererende of uit elkander groeijende bloemen Naturally coloured image, poss. gouache. Date: circa 1810

© The John Innes Centre/The John Innes Foundation/Mary Evans

Balloon descending into Bristol Channel

A balloon descending into the water of the Bristol Channel, near Watermouth. The passengers were Sadler and Clayfield, who ascended from Bristol.
24 September 1810

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)/Mary Evans

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