Name of Object:

The Suffragette 1d Weekly

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Holding Institution:

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Date of Object:

c.1914 (issued)

Author:

Artist: Hilda Dallas; issuer: W.S.P.U. (Women's Social and Political Union)

Inventory Number:

E.648-1972

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Colour lithograph print

Dimensions:

Height: 50.5 cm, Width: 75.3 cm

Provenance:

United Kingdom

Description:

‘The Suffragette’ was the weekly newspaper of the Woman's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the leading militant organisation campaigning for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom. This wood block printed advertisement features the patron saint of the Suffragettes, Joan of Arc carrying the banner of the WSPU.

Hilda Dallas was a member of the Suffrage Atelier, which was formed in 1909 to encourage artists to promote 'the enfranchisement of women, by means of pictorial publication'. Its activities also included training non-professional artists in printing techniques. The low cost, low tech method of wood block printing, as used in this poster, was cheap, quick and easy to learn.

Citation of this web page:

Victoria and Albert Museum "The Suffragette 1d Weekly" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;uk;146;en

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MWNF Working Number: UK 146