Please find a bin or take your litter home

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Artist/Maker	HM Government (issuer) Mount, (Edward) Reginald (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Colour offset lithograph poster showing five items of litter above a rubbish bin, with yellow arrows pointing from each item to the bin. The word 'PLEASE' is lettered in red above the bin and lettered below in yellow is the text 'find a bin or take your litter home'.

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Categories	Prints Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Please find a bin or take your litter home
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description	'Please find a bin or take your litter home'. Colour offset lithograph poster, part of a Government anti-litter campaign. Designed by Edward Reginald Mount, Great Britain, ca.1950-55.
Physical description	Colour offset lithograph poster showing five items of litter above a rubbish bin, with yellow arrows pointing from each item to the bin. The word 'PLEASE' is lettered in red above the bin and lettered below in yellow is the text 'find a bin or take your litter home'.
Dimensions	Height: 76.3cm Width: 50.7cm Measurements 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	'PLEASE / find a bin / or take your litter home' (Text of design.)
Subjects depicted	Bin Rubbish
Associated object	E.207-1982
Bibliographic reference	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
Other number	27/F3 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.208-1982

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548572/please-find-a-bin-or-poster-mount-edward-reginald/

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