Asking for trouble

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Artist/Maker	Loxley Bros. Ltd. (printers) Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (publishers) Ministry of Labour and National Service (issued by) Eckersley, Tom (OBE) (designer)
Place of origin	London (published)

Poster encouraging safety at work depicting a foot stepping onto the broken rung of a ladder. Below the ladder is the poster's slogan in large black letters, 'Asking for trouble'. The artist has signed himself, 'Eckersley' along the lower left outer edge of the ladder.

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Categories	Prints Propaganda Health Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Asking for trouble (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph Lithographic Ink Paper Lithography
Brief description	Safety at work poster produced by RoSPA, designed by Tom Eckersley, and printed by Loxley Bros. Ltd, United Kingdom, 1940s
Physical description	Poster encouraging safety at work depicting a foot stepping onto the broken rung of a ladder. Below the ladder is the poster's slogan in large black letters, 'Asking for trouble'. The artist has signed himself, 'Eckersley' along the lower left outer edge of the ladder.
Dimensions	Height: 76cm Width: 50.6cm
Marks and inscriptions	'ASKING FOR TROUBLE' (Printed in black below the image) 'MLJ/152' (The issue number is printed in the lower left-hand corner, next to the Society's symbol, a cog and a triangle.) 'Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, Terminal House, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W.1 / Printed by LOXLEY BROS. LTD.' (Printing and publishing information, printed at the bottom of the poster.) 'ECKERSLEY' (Artist's signature, along the lower left outer edge of the ladder)
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	Health Safety Prevention Accident Ladders Shoes
Other number	LS.1983 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.257-2004

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Record created	April 24, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O123285/asking-for-trouble-poster-eckersley-tom-obe/

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