The welcome to the victims of masculine tyranny Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Two characters from Shakespeare's play

Two characters from Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens sitting under trees in the wilderness

In the days when corporal punishment was a regular and painful feature of public school life

Inscribed in pencil lower left '1818'

He wears a black robe with white

The welcome to the victims of masculine tyranny Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Two characters from Shakespeare's play'The welcome to the victims of masculine tyranny', 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.