Suffragette 'martyrs' released from prison Musso Figures 2-3 upper and lower

Figures 2-3 upper and lower surfaces of Papilio myrina

which looms over the figures in the boats

and was destroyed in the Great Storm of 27 November 1703

March 1977 P002533

Inscribed in pencil lower left '1772' and verso 'pp 5/-'

Suffragette 'martyrs' released from prison Musso Figures 2-3 upper and lowerSuffragette 'martyrs' released from prison, 1908. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience, for which many were imprisoned. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, with all women finally gaining the right to vote ten years later, in 1928.