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Tuesday is Mother's Day

Print
ca. 1985 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dalton, Pen (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

A colour screen print depicting a collage of social welfare documents, a repeating image of the Madonna and Child and a repeating photographic image of a woman with children. Written in purple and repeated twice around the edge of the print are the words 'Tuesday is mother's day. Every day's a working day...Motherhood is sacred...Mother's work is cheap.'


Object details

Categories
Posters
Prints
Feminism
Politics
Object type
Print
TitleTuesday is Mother's Day (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour screenprint
Paper
Screenprinting
Brief description
Print by Penelope Dalton, 'Tuesday is Mother's Day', colour screenprint, Great Britain, ca. 1985
Physical description
A colour screen print depicting a collage of social welfare documents, a repeating image of the Madonna and Child and a repeating photographic image of a woman with children. Written in purple and repeated twice around the edge of the print are the words 'Tuesday is mother's day. Every day's a working day...Motherhood is sacred...Mother's work is cheap.'
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 76.1cm
  • Sheet width: 55.9cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Mrs Penelope Kaler nee Pen Dalton' (Signed in pencil on the back)
  • 'Tuesday is the day I collect the family allowance from the Post Office' (Inscribed)
Credit line
Given by the Artist
Subjects depicted
Feminism
Propaganda
Women
Children
Document
Mothers
Virgin Mary
Christ Child
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1586-1991

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Record createdMarch 2, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O195075/tuesday-is-mothers-day-print-dalton-pen/
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