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Take Warning - wear goggles or use the screen

Poster
ca.1940s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Double-sided safety at work poster produced by RoSPA.
Recto: 'Take warning - wear goggles or use the screen', safety poster the head of a man wearing an eye-patch. The face is no fully illustrated, but seen from a three-quarter view, the edges blurred, and there is a white square in the area surrounding the black eye-patch. The poster is signed 'Eckersley' along the back of the man's neck.

Verso: This poster, which looks towards the Modernist style, depicts the stylised interior of a factory, coloured orange, brown and black. Machines are seen in close-up, an orange diagonal strip stands for the floor, and beyond this are the dark forms of more machinery. At the bottom of the image, in the shade of the foremost machine is the poster's slogan in large letters, 'Keep that gangway clear', in brown, red and black letters. The artist has signed himself, ''Arthur G Mills'' in the top right corner of the image.


Object details

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Object type
Titles
  • Take Warning - wear goggles or use the screen (assigned by artist)
  • Keep that gangway clear (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
Double-sided safety at work poster produced by RoSPA, designed by Tom Eckersley (recto) and Arthur G. Mills (verso), and printed by Loxley Bros. Ltd, United Kingdom, 1940s
Physical description
Double-sided safety at work poster produced by RoSPA.
Recto: 'Take warning - wear goggles or use the screen', safety poster the head of a man wearing an eye-patch. The face is no fully illustrated, but seen from a three-quarter view, the edges blurred, and there is a white square in the area surrounding the black eye-patch. The poster is signed 'Eckersley' along the back of the man's neck.

Verso: This poster, which looks towards the Modernist style, depicts the stylised interior of a factory, coloured orange, brown and black. Machines are seen in close-up, an orange diagonal strip stands for the floor, and beyond this are the dark forms of more machinery. At the bottom of the image, in the shade of the foremost machine is the poster's slogan in large letters, 'Keep that gangway clear', in brown, red and black letters. The artist has signed himself, ''Arthur G Mills'' in the top right corner of the image.
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.1cm
  • Width: 49.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'TAKE WARNING / WEAR GOGGLES / OR USE THE SCREEN' (The first line is printed in brown above the image, the second below the image, and the third, also below the image, is printed in black, recto.)
  • 'Keep that / GANGWAY / CLEAR' (Printed below the image, diagonal - parallel with the point of perspective, the first line brown, and the others a mixture of black and red, verso.)
  • 'MLM/99' (The issue number (recto) printed in the lower left-hand corner, next to the Society's symbol, a cog and a triangle.)
  • 'MLM/102' (The issue number (verso) 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 on both sides.)
  • 'ECKERSLEY' (Artist's signature, recro, printed black)
  • 'ARTHUR / G. MILLS' (Artist's signature, printed brown, upper right corner of the image, verso)
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
Other numbers
  • LS.1983 [recto] - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
  • LS.2227 [verso] - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection
Accession number
E.259-2004

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Record createdApril 24, 2006
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