1902 Pen and Ink Drawing and poem about a Suffragette cyclist

Name: 1902 Pen and Ink Drawing and poem about a Suffragette cyclist
SKU: 9002

SKU: 9002

Title - Emancipation

Date - Dec 28th 1902

Medium - Pen and ink Drawing on paper

Signed - Pollie Brindle

Picture size - 19.5cm x 15cm / 7.75" x 6"

Outside frame size - 33cm x 28.5cm / 13.25" x 11.5"

Condition - Excellent

Frame - Antique Victorian / Edwardian oak picture frame with period glass

A rare and early Edwardian Pen and Ink drawing of a female cyclist with a Suffragettist poem copied below. The bicycle was embraced by females from the very beginning as a form of independence, and the title 'Emancipation' is a provocative word in 1902.

What do you think of us ladies now?

you don't think much oh! hold your row,

We're better than you, for we're just as wise,

and beat you quite for enterprise.

And we bike with ease and golf with grace -

Oh! we are the girls who can go the pace.

£875.00