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Knight, Jessie (Jessie Knight was the first prominent female tattooist in the UK. She took over her father's tattoo shop in Barry aged 18 in 1927 and went on to prominence whilst working in Chatham, Portsmouth and Aldershot. She returned to Barry in 1968, and continued to work there as a tattoo artist into the 1980s.)

Colour drawing of a nude female on a horse, with the text, ‘WILD BEAUTY’.

On the other side is a colour drawing of a nude woman riding an eagle.

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Social & Cultural History

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F2021.21.110

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Knight, Jessie

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Purchase, 1/3/2021

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Length (mm): 223

Width (mm): 292

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Ink

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In store-room

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