CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.</p><p>Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VotesForWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VotesForWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BritishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p><p>1/2</p>