Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Evelyn Manesta NPG x45558

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Criminal Record Office

Along with Lillian Forrester, Manesta was arrested for hammering the protective glass covers of paintings in Manchester Art Gallery in 1913 and was sentenced to one month imprisonment. The attack had been a reaction against the arrest and sentencing of Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and a radical approach by the suffragettes to highlight their campaign for women's rights. After refusing to have their photos taken, without their knowledge or consent police took photographs of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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