Poster
1943 (made)
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Colour lithograph poster warning against careless talk in wartime.
Object details
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| Brief description | "He Talked. They died" by Abram Games. World War II propaganda against careless talk. UK, 1943. |
| Physical description | Colour lithograph poster warning against careless talk in wartime. |
| 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 |
| Bibliographic reference | Games designed three posters in this series but initially had them rejected, writing to a friend, 'The blighters rejected a group of my new security posters - the whole lot. I was so wild and upset I told my chief I would rather chuck the job than amuse myself if it was not really wanted.' He did have one printed on this subject the previous year (see Circ.297-1971).
The quote is sourced from the National Army Museum, London, who staged 'The Art of Persuasion: Wartime Posters by Abram Games' in 2019. Another copy of this poster exists in their collection (NAM. 2013-07-2-7). |
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| Accession number | E.1576-2004 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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