Art students protest about Lord Leverhulme
Art students in London protest against Lord Leverhulme who had returned a portrait of himself by Augustus John to the artist with the head cut out. An effigy of Leverhulme was carried through the streets and ceremoniously burnt in Hyde Park on the 5th November to protest about the mutilation of the painting
Picture No
13418400
Media ID
46782211
Size
5226px x 4674px
(4.5MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Illustrated London News, 5 November 1920, page 762
Date
1920
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