A £5 note could have broken her fall
Poster
1986 (issued)
1986 (issued)
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Offset lithograph poster showing a photograph of an apparently dead woman lying on a pavement by the brick wall of a house, with the text of the design lettered in white at the top of the poster.
Object details
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| Title | A £5 note could have broken her fall |
| Materials and techniques | Offset lithograph |
| Brief description | 'A £5 note could have broken her fall'. Printer's proof of a small offset lithograph poster issued by the charitable organisation The Samaritans. Designed by Simon Dicketts and Fergus Fleming of Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Ltd., Great Britain, 1986. |
| Physical description | Offset lithograph poster showing a photograph of an apparently dead woman lying on a pavement by the brick wall of a house, with the text of the design lettered in white at the top of the poster. |
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| Production type | Proof |
| Credit line | Given by Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Ltd. |
| Object history | This is a printer's proof of a small poster issued by the charitable organisation The Samaritans. |
| Production | Attribution note: printers proof |
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| 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 | 10/G3 - V&A microfiche |
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| Accession number | E.23-1986 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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