Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1912-1915
A Cartoon of George Bernard Shaw and a Suffragette
The Australian artist William Dyson (1880-1938) moved to London in 1909. In 1912 he began work for the Daily Herald, a newspaper that had emerged in 1910 from a strike by London printers. The Daily Herald was London's only left wing newspaper, and the only one to support the suffragette cause.
Here, Dyson portrays a wispy suffragette admiring the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, also a supporter of female suffrage. Shaw was a prominent socialist and outspoken member of the Fabian Society.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 81.113/12
- Object name:
- A Cartoon of George Bernard Shaw and a Suffragette
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- Artist/Maker:
- Dyson, William
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- Production date:
- 1912-1915
- Material:
- paper, pencil, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 554 mm, W 438 mm (paper)
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Copyright holder:
- Dyson, William
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