Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mary Raleigh Richardson NPG x45559

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Criminal Record Office

Richardson's attack on Velázquez's painting The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus) is the most famous act of destruction by a British Suffragette. An art student and journalist, she joined the movement in 1910 and was arrested nine times for acts of civil disobedience, and forcibly fed in prison. Richardson described her attack on the painting as a premeditated response to the re-arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst; 'I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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