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Emily J. Harding
(1850–1940) was a British artist, illustrator and
suffragette
, and a member of the
Artists' Suffrage League
. This poster, created by Harding around 1907 to 1918 in support of the
suffrage movement in the United Kingdom
, depicts a woman wearing an academic cap and gown standing inside a locked gate with a "
convict
" and a "
lunatic
", to illustrate the fact that none of the three had a vote for Parliament.
Poster credit:
Emily J. Harding
; restored by
Adam Cuerden
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