Art
CRANE WRITES ON DESIGNING A MACE FOR THE SUFFRAGETTES
CRANE
(Walter, 1845-1915, Painter and Illustrator)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs SCRATCHERD
(Alice Cliff, 1842-1906, early British Suffragist) thanking her for her letter & in reply beg to say that I shall be willing to design the mace you speak of. My fee for the design & working drawings would probably be about... the figures has been removed, If however, I made a complete model of it for the silversmith it would be about as much again. Though, of course, much would depend upon the amount of detail & invention introduced. I have no doubt I could get you an estimate for supplying the mace complete in silver & enamels or in silver-gilt if you preferred? If, again you preferred to name a limit of the amount you wished to spend upon the work one might be able to estimate upon that..., 3 sides 8vo., 13 Holland St, Kensington, headed paper with his stylised Crane, 24th April
Item Date: 1901
Background
In 1891 Mrs Scratcherd founded the Women's Franchise League, with Harriet McIlquham, Ursula Bright, Emmeline Pankhurst, Richard Pankhurst and Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy. She was a lifelong campaigner for women's rights in the Leeds area.
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