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'Surveillance Photograph of Militant Suffragettes' NPG x132847

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Criminal Record Office

Surveillance photographs of militant Suffragettes were issued to public galleries including the National Portrait Gallery in 1914. Most of the images in the composite group photograph were taken undercover while the women were in the exercise yards of Manchester or Holloway prisons. While the surveillance photograph lacks any of the understanding between artist and sitter necessary in a portrait, the images are themselves striking and sometimes unintentionally heroic. Of those included, Gertrude Ansell (1861–1932) (below, bottom row, second left), a professional typist, attacked Hubert... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.