Keep a Guard on What You Say
Poster
1941 (made)
1941 (made)
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Abram Games designed many British wartime propaganda posters over the course of his military service, including some 100 posters for the Army alone. The designer was Jewish and felt deeply for the victims of atrocities at the hands of Axis forces. This poster promotes wartime vigilance and discretion though the clever pairing of the colloquial phrase "keep a guard on what you say", and Games' visual pun of a man whose mouth is guarded by a sentry.
Object details
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| Title | Keep a Guard on What You Say |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithography |
| Brief description | 'Keep a Guard on What You Say'. Colour lithograph propaganda poster warning against careless talk, with a design featuring a geometric human face. Designed by Abram Games. Issued by the War Office during the Second World War. Great Britain. 1941. |
| Physical description | 'Keep a Guard on What You Say'. Colour lithograph propaganda poster warning against careless talk, with a design featuring a geometric human face with a soldier for a mouth. Signed and dated 'A. Games 41'. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A. Games 41 (Signed and dated, lower right corner.) |
| Credit line | Acquired from Adrian Tilbrook in 1971. |
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| Summary | Abram Games designed many British wartime propaganda posters over the course of his military service, including some 100 posters for the Army alone. The designer was Jewish and felt deeply for the victims of atrocities at the hands of Axis forces. This poster promotes wartime vigilance and discretion though the clever pairing of the colloquial phrase "keep a guard on what you say", and Games' visual pun of a man whose mouth is guarded by a sentry. |
| Associated object | E.883-2004 (Duplicate) |
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| Other number | 14/B7 - V&A microfiche |
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| Accession number | CIRC.293-1971 |
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| Record created | December 13, 2005 |
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