Men who mean business read The Financial Times every day

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Artist/Maker	Games, Abram (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Men who mean business read The Financial Times every day. Colour lithograph poster, with a design featuring an anthropomorphised newspaper with human legs, advertising 'The Financial Times' newspaper. Signed.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters Anthropomorphism Paintings Images Online
Object type	Poster
Title	Men who mean business read The Financial Times every day
Materials and techniques	Colour lithography Colour Lithography
Brief description	Men who mean business read The Financial Times every day. Colour lithograph poster, with a design featuring an anthropomorphised newspaper with human legs, advertising 'The Financial Times' newspaper. Designed by Abram Games. Great Britain, 1952.
Physical description	Men who mean business read The Financial Times every day. Colour lithograph poster, with a design featuring an anthropomorphised newspaper with human legs, advertising 'The Financial Times' newspaper. Signed.
Dimensions	Height: 76.1cm Width: 50.7cm Dimensions 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.)
Subjects depicted	Newspaper Umbrella Briefcase
Associated objects	CIRC.243-1967 E.150-1980
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 numbers	14/D8 - V&A microfiche C.22806 - Previous number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.156-1980

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1043107/men-who-mean-business-read-poster-games-abram/

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