Paintings, Prints & Drawings — C. 1907
Sylvia Pankhurst, self-portrait
In this self-portrait, Sylvia Pankhurst shows herself wearing prison dress. Sylvia, one of Emmeline Pankhurst's three daughters, trained at the Royal College of Art from 1904 to 1906. From 1906, her artistic energies were channelled into the suffragette movement. Her designs appeared on badges, banners and other propaganda material, and gave the suffragette movement its visual identity.
Pankhurst was first sent to Holloway Prison for suffragette militancy in 1907, and was shocked by the conditions endured by women inmates. On her release, she exposed the realities of prison life in the press. Her commitment to fighting for the improvement of working-class women's lives took her to the East End, where she formed the East London Federation of Suffragettes.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 56.174/1
- Object name:
- Sylvia Pankhurst, self-portrait
- Artist/Maker:
- Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia
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- Production date:
- c. 1907
- Material:
- paper, pastel, charcoal
- Measurements/duration:
- H 691 mm, L 602 mm (mounted), H 595 mm, L 513 (unmounted) (overall)
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Copyright holder:
- Professor Richard Pankhurst
- Image credit:
- © Professor Richard Pankhurst, © Richard Pankhurst, © Richard Pankhurst
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