The Paid Piper

Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard highlighting the 'taxation without representation' argument. Titled 'The Paid Piper' the postcard depicts a bagpipe player in the foreground with a male figure in the background telling 'Miss Bull' 'I don't mind your paying, but I call the tune.' The postcard refers to the injustice of women who have to pay taxes whilst being denied representation in parliament and therefore the right to influence how their taxes are spent.

This postcard was published by the Suffrage Atelier founded in London in February 1909 'to encourage Artists to forward the Women's Movement, and particularly the Enfranchisement of Women, by means of pictorial publications.'
The Atelier artists specialised in hand-made wooden block prints, stencilling and etchings and produced visually powerful posters and postcards to publicise the pro-suffrage campaign.