Kitty Marion (Katherina Maria Schafer)
1 portrait
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Kitty Marion (Katherina Maria Schafer)
by Criminal Record Office, after Unknown photographer
silver print mounted onto identification sheet; copy of a postcard, circa 1913
3 5/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. (93 mm x 58 mm)
Acquired from Criminal Record Office, 1914
Photographs Collection
NPG x45561
Sitterback to top
- Kitty Marion (Katherina Maria Schafer) (1871-1944), Militant suffragette; Actress. Sitter in 5 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Criminal Record Office, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 20 portraits.
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6583 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG x132847: 'Surveillance Photograph of Militant Suffragettes' (includes the portrait)
Linked publicationsback to top
- Hamilton, Peter; Hargreaves, Roger, The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth Century Portrait Photography, 2001 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 6 June to 7 October 2001), p. 53
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- The Beautiful and the Damned (6 June 2001 - 7 October 2001)
Events of 1913back to top
Current affairs
The Suffragette, Emily Davison dies after stepping out in front of the King's horse as a protest at the Epsom Derby. In the same year the Liberal government passed the Cat and Mouse Act allowing them to release and re-arrest Suffragettes who went on hunger strike while in prison. Davison, herself, had been on hunger strike and was force-fed while detained at Holloway Prison.Art and science
Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring comes to London following its premier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Audiences were shocked by Stravinsky's rhythmic and dissonant musical score and by the violent jerky dancing of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which were intended to represent pagan ritual.International
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company, rapidly increasing the rate at which the famous Model T could be manufactured, leading to massive growth in the motorcar industry and demonstrating to other industries the efficiency of mass production.Comments back to top
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