Political cartoon exhibited at the Women's Exhibition

Political cartoon in model or 'peepshow' exhibited at the Women's Exhibition, May 1909. The two week Women's Exhibition, held at Prince's Skating Rink, Knighstbridge was organised by the Women's Social and Political Union both to raise funds and the profile of the Suffragette campaign. Educating visitors about the political debate and government intransigence on the issue of female suffrage was also a key purpose of the Exhibition. This image depicts number 10 of the 12 'satirical peepshows' created for the exhibition and hugely popular with the visitors. Entitled 'Una and the Lion, with reference to the poem The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser the cartoon represents the power of spiritual force over physical force and depicts Una with a lion seen coming through a forest, with a sunset glow behind.