Women's Suffrage Procession (18 June 1910) (1910)

Mary Lanchester

colour woodcut

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Women's Suffrage Procession (18 June 1910) (1910)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Physical Object Description:

Women's Suffrage procession, with large numbers of women with banners (of the type designed by Clemence and Laurence Housman for many of the marches organised by the WPSU) marching down St James's Street, London towards St James's Palace at the bottom on Pall Mall, c.1910 Colour woodcut. Signed in pencil and titled: June 18 1910.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

13.8 x 22.8 cm

Accession Number:

1936,0613.100

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1936

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, 7 February 1935 (for one guinea); presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, 1936

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Feminism, Suffrage, Freedom, Political Event

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Mary Lanchester

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