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title: '"Handicapped!" (Artists'' Suffrage League poster, London, 1909)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/handicapped-artists-suffrage-league-1909/
description: A woman rows a small boat against high waves while a man in a sailboat glides past, his sail marked 'VOTES'; the Houses of Parliament sit on the horizon.
section: Collection
---

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# "Handicapped!" (Artists' Suffrage League poster, London, 1909)

A woman rows a small boat against high waves while a man in a sailboat glides past, his sail marked 'VOTES'; the Houses of Parliament sit on the horizon. The tell: the contrast of effort and ease carries the whole argument, and the one word on the sail says what the difference is.

A 1909 London poster by the Artists' Suffrage League, printed by Carl Hentschel Ltd., recorded as the winner of a poster competition and aimed at a domestic public. A woman rows a small boat against high waves while a man in a sailboat glides past, his sail marked 'VOTES', with the Houses of Parliament on the horizon. The title is 'Handicapped!'. It asks viewers to support votes for women. Appeal to emotion carries the argument through the contrast of effort and ease.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
VOTES
HANDICAPPED!
```

The imprint line at the foot of the sheet is too small to read reliably here and is left out.

[← El Renacimiento, daily, p. 4 article (Manila, 30 October 1908): 'Aves de rapiña' (Birds of Prey)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/el-renacimiento-aves-de-rapina-1908/) ["Justice Demands the Vote" (Brighton & Hove Women's Franchise Society, 1909) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/justice-demands-the-vote-brighton-hove-1909/)

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- ["Justice Demands the Vote" (Brighton & Hove Women's Franchise Society, 1909)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/justice-demands-the-vote-brighton-hove-1909/) (United Kingdom · 1909 · Appeal to emotion, Transfer)
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