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If You Can't Grow Fingers Grow Careful

Poster
ca.1940s (issued)
Artist/Maker
General Stampers (Welwyn) Ltd. (issuer)
Lewitt-Him (design studio)
Place of origin
England (issued)

'If You Can't Grow Fingers Grow Careful'. Colour lithograph poster advertising industrial safety precautions. Signed.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleIf You Can't Grow Fingers Grow Careful
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'If You Can't Grow Fingers Grow Careful'. Colour lithograph poster advertising industrial safety precautions. designed by the Lewitt-Him Studio and issued by General Stampers (Welwyn) Ltd., Great Britain, ca.1940s.
Physical description
'If You Can't Grow Fingers Grow Careful'. Colour lithograph poster advertising industrial safety precautions. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 75.2cm
  • Width: 50.5cm
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.
Subject depicted
Safety
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1965
Other numbers
  • 25/C6 - V&A microfiche
  • C.17739 - Previous number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.629-1965

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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