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Don't Fly Too Low

Poster
ca. 1946 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Image of a broken pine tree. The background is light blue across upper margins, purple at lower margin.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDon't Fly Too Low (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
"Don't Fly Too Low" Directorate of Air Traffic and Safety poster. UK, ca. 1946.
Physical description
Image of a broken pine tree. The background is light blue across upper margins, purple at lower margin.
Dimensions
  • Height: 55.7cm
  • Width: 43.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • DON'T FLY (black sans serif, diagonally printed)
  • TOO LOW (printed in red, followed by a red star)
  • D-L-4/ Directorate of Air Traffic and Safety, and Directorate of Safety Education (white on purple, bottom left)
Credit line
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Other number
LS.1899
Collection
Accession number
E.739-2004

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Record createdSeptember 16, 2004
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