#OnThisDay, 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.
Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.
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Cartoon of a pavement artist putting boxes over chalk drawings as a march approaches. Original caption read: Pavement artist (who has not yet recovered the nerve which he lost on hearing of the attack upon the Velasquez Venus). "Pass along them covers, George - the suffragettes is coming."
black and white photograph of the damage done to the painting. The painting is of a nude woman reclining with her back to us.