A Drawing Of The British Suffragist Dame Christable Pankhurst Carrying A Votes For Women Sign From 1917. Cet article n’est pas disponible.A Drawing Of The British Suffragist Dame Christable Pankhurst Carrying A Votes For Women Sign From 1917

DAME CHRISTABEL PANKHURST (1880-1958). Dame Pankhurst was a British suffragist who co-created the Womens Social and Political Union. Early in life, she received a law degree but was not allowed to practice because of her gender. She later moved to the United States.Ink drawing. 4 x 5. No place [likely England]. June 1917. A pen and ink drawing of the noted suffragist Christabel Pankhurst. The caricature shows her carrying a large Votes For Women sign above her head; the artist misspelled her name. The drawing was done by the British artist Herbert Blake Mellelieu and he also signed his drawing and dated it 1917 at the time of Pankhursts maximum political power. It is houses in a wooden frame with a gilt wooden interior layer.