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Grow Your Own Food supply your own cookhouse

Poster
1942 (issued)
Artist/Maker
War Office (issuer)
Games, Abram (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)
Great Britain (issued)

'Grow Your Own Food supply your own cookhouse … every available piece of land must be cultivated'. Colour lithograph poster. Signed.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleGrow Your Own Food supply your own cookhouse
Materials and techniques
colour lithography
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Grow Your Own Food supply your own cookhouse … every available piece of land must be cultivated'. Colour lithograph poster. Designed by Abram Games. Issued by the War Office during the Second World War. Great Britain. 1942.
Physical description
'Grow Your Own Food supply your own cookhouse … every available piece of land must be cultivated'. Colour lithograph poster. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 75.9cm
  • Width: 49cm
Dimensions taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions
(Signed.)
Subjects depicted
Rationing
Allotment
Fork
Shovel
Vegetables
Association
Second World War
Bibliographic references
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1971
Other number
14/B11 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.296-1971

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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