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Anti-suffrage
postcard Ink on card, 14.1 x 9.1 cm, designed by Harold Bird, 1912 London Museum, London |
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Designed for the National
League for Opposing Woman Suffrage meeting at the Royal Albert Hall,
which campaigned in Britain to prevent women from gaining the
parliamentary vote. In the foreground of the postcard stands a
figure of classical grace, garlanded and composed, refusing the vote
with dignified disdain. Behind her, a chaotic, militant woman in
labourer's garb lunges forward, hammer aloft, demanding the vote. A
silhouetted view of London, with Big Ben and the Houses of
Parliament, forms the backdrop. |
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