Printed Ephemera — 1910
What's Sauce For The Peer Is Sauce For The Premier
Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard designed by the artist Alfred Pearse (A Patriot). Headed 'What's Sauce For The Peer Is Sauce For The Premier', the postcard depicts Prime Minister Asquith and a Suffragette holding placards before a peer of the House of Lords. The image refers to Suffragette attempts to persuade Parliament to pass the Conciliation Bill of 1910. Below is printed a transcript of a resolution carried at the Suffragette monster meeting that urges the government to follow the 'will of the people' and pass the Bill that would have given some women the vote.
The cartoonist and campaigner Alfred Pearse was a key contributor to the visual imagery used to promote the Suffragette campaign. Signing himself 'A Patriot' his cartoons regularly appeared on the front page of the Votes for Women newspaper as well as being reproduced as campaign posters and postcards.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- NN22652
- Object name:
- What's Sauce For The Peer Is Sauce For The Premier
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- Artist/Maker:
- Suffrage Atelier
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- Production date:
- 1910
- Material:
card, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 88 mm, W 140 mm
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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