Postcard, The Anti-Suffrage Society as Portrait-Painter

Pro-female suffrage propaganda postcard titled 'The Anti-Suffrage Society as Portrait- Painter' published by the Suffrage Atelier. Here, the anti-suffrage society depicted as an 'ASS' stands before a portrait of an enfranchised and, thereby 'unsexed,' unfeminine shrieking woman. The postcard depicts stereotypical representations of Suffragettes as shrieking, sexless women and anti-suffrage campaigners as an ass.
The Suffrage Atelier was founded in London in February 1909 as 'An Arts and Crafts Society Working for the Enfranchisement of Women'. Its object was: 'to encourage Artists to forward the Women's Movement, and particularly the Enfranchisement of Women, by means of pictorial publications.'
The Atelier artists specialised in hand-made wooden block prints, stencilling and etchings and produced visually powerful posters and postcards to publicise the pro-suffrage campaign.
Laurence and Clemence Housman were co-founders of the Atelier, other members were Catherine Courtauld, Edith Craig and Isobel Pocock. The Atelier was associated with the militant Votes for Women campaign, in particular the Women's Freedom League. It also ran the Art Stall at the WSPU's fund-raising Women's Exhibition in 1909.