Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary A. Aldham; Ethel Cox NPG x136418

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

The suffragette Mary Wood, an alias of Mary Aldham, attacked John Sargent's portrait of novelist Henry James whilst on display at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1914. Aldham slashed the canvas three times with a meat cleaver while crying 'Votes for Women'. The attack was a response to the arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst. In defence of her actions, Wood wrote that 'I have tried to destroy a valuable picture because I wish to show the public that they have no... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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