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Blood Donors. If He Should Fall Is Your Blood There To Save Him?

Poster
1943 (issued)
Artist/Maker
War Office (issuer)
Games, Abram (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (printed and published)

'Blood Donors. If He Should Fall Is Your Blood There To Save Him?'. Colour offset lithograph poster, asking for volunteers for the Emergency Blood Transfusion Service. Signed.

Object details

Categories
Propaganda
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleBlood Donors. If He Should Fall Is Your Blood There To Save Him?
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithography
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
'Blood Donors. If He Should Fall Is Your Blood There To Save Him?'. Colour offset lithograph poster, asking for volunteers for the Emergency Blood Transfusion Service. Designed by Abram Games. Issued by the War Office during the Second World War. Great Britain. 1943.
Physical description
'Blood Donors. If He Should Fall Is Your Blood There To Save Him?'. Colour offset lithograph poster, asking for volunteers for the Emergency Blood Transfusion Service. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Approx height: 74.6cm
  • Approx width: 48.8cm
Dimensions taken from the entry for a duplicate of this object (Circ.292-1971), in: 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.)
Association
Second World War
Associated objects
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 number
C.17654 - Previous number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.624-1965

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1034422/blood-donors-if-he-should-poster-games-abram/
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