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Artist/Maker	Ministry of Health (issuer) Mount, (Edward) Reginald (artist) Evans, Eileen Margaret (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Colour offset lithograph anti-smoking poster featuring a reproduction of a wood-engraving of a hand with palmists symbols, with a cigarette placed between the fingers. The palm printed in pink against a dark ground.

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Categories	Prints Health Propaganda Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Use Your Head
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description	'Use your HEAD. Don't tempt FATE ... ' Colour lithograph poster advertising the dangers of cigarette smoking. Designed by (Edward) Reginald Mount and Eileen Evans. Produced by the Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health, Great Britain, 1965.
Physical description	Colour offset lithograph anti-smoking poster featuring a reproduction of a wood-engraving of a hand with palmists symbols, with a cigarette placed between the fingers. The palm printed in pink against a dark ground.
Dimensions	Height: 73.7cm Width: 48.5cm 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	Signed. 'Use your HEAD / Don't tempt FATE' ... (Part of text of design, lettered below the image of the palmist's hand.)
Production	Produced by the Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health.
Subjects depicted	Palmistry Public Health Propaganda Hand Symbols
Associated object	E.526-1985 (Duplicate)
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/G2 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.796-1969

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O688133/use-your-head-poster-mount-edward-reginald/

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