Social History — C. 1954
Bust
Portrait bust of Emmeline Pankhurst. This bronze was cast in the 1950s from a plaster made in Holloway Prison in 1912 by Alice Morgan Wright. Wright shared a prison cell with Emmeline Pankhurst and modelled the bust with plastoline she had smuggled in to the prison. In the 1950s, Wright described the 'fun' she had in employing a bronze-caster who 'was very much entertained by the order because he used to be a bobby [policeman] in the old days and used to arrest suffragettes'.
- Category:
- Social History
- Object ID:
- 55.30
- Object name:
- bust
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Morgan Wright, Alice
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- Production date:
- c. 1954
- Material:
bronze, marble
- Measurements/duration:
- H 159 mm, W 87 mm, D 80 mm, WT 1322 g
- Part of:
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
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