Why make such a litter? When one season ticket will serve and save time, temper, trouble, tin.

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Artist/Maker	Rutherston, Albert Daniel (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Design for a poster lettered 'Why make such a litter? When one season ticket will serve and save time, temper, trouble, tin.'

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Categories	Posters Transport Advertising Prints Drawings Designs
Object type	Poster design
Title	Why make such a litter? When one season ticket will serve and save time, temper, trouble, tin. (published title)
Materials and techniques	Tempera Tempera
Brief description	Poster design by Albert Rutherston, 'Why make such a litter?', advertising the Underground Electric Railways, tempera, Great Britain, 1926
Physical description	Design for a poster lettered 'Why make such a litter? When one season ticket will serve and save time, temper, trouble, tin.'
Dimensions	Height: 38.75in Width: 23.375in Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Marks and inscriptions	'Albert R 1926' (Signed) (Inscribed in ink with notes as to printing)
Credit line	Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1926, London: Board of Education, 1927. Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929 Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2403-1928

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Record created	June 30, 2009
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