Take Warning - wear goggles or use the screen
Poster
ca.1940s (made)
ca.1940s (made)
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Double-sided safety at work poster produced by RoSPA.
Recto: 'Take warning - wear goggles or use the screen', safety poster the head of a man wearing an eye-patch. The face is no fully illustrated, but seen from a three-quarter view, the edges blurred, and there is a white square in the area surrounding the black eye-patch. The poster is signed 'Eckersley' along the back of the man's neck.
Verso: This poster, which looks towards the Modernist style, depicts the stylised interior of a factory, coloured orange, brown and black. Machines are seen in close-up, an orange diagonal strip stands for the floor, and beyond this are the dark forms of more machinery. At the bottom of the image, in the shade of the foremost machine is the poster's slogan in large letters, 'Keep that gangway clear', in brown, red and black letters. The artist has signed himself, ''Arthur G Mills'' in the top right corner of the image.
Recto: 'Take warning - wear goggles or use the screen', safety poster the head of a man wearing an eye-patch. The face is no fully illustrated, but seen from a three-quarter view, the edges blurred, and there is a white square in the area surrounding the black eye-patch. The poster is signed 'Eckersley' along the back of the man's neck.
Verso: This poster, which looks towards the Modernist style, depicts the stylised interior of a factory, coloured orange, brown and black. Machines are seen in close-up, an orange diagonal strip stands for the floor, and beyond this are the dark forms of more machinery. At the bottom of the image, in the shade of the foremost machine is the poster's slogan in large letters, 'Keep that gangway clear', in brown, red and black letters. The artist has signed himself, ''Arthur G Mills'' in the top right corner of the image.
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Double-sided safety at work poster produced by RoSPA, designed by Tom Eckersley (recto) and Arthur G. Mills (verso), and printed by Loxley Bros. Ltd, United Kingdom, 1940s |
| Physical description | Double-sided safety at work poster produced by RoSPA. Recto: 'Take warning - wear goggles or use the screen', safety poster the head of a man wearing an eye-patch. The face is no fully illustrated, but seen from a three-quarter view, the edges blurred, and there is a white square in the area surrounding the black eye-patch. The poster is signed 'Eckersley' along the back of the man's neck. Verso: This poster, which looks towards the Modernist style, depicts the stylised interior of a factory, coloured orange, brown and black. Machines are seen in close-up, an orange diagonal strip stands for the floor, and beyond this are the dark forms of more machinery. At the bottom of the image, in the shade of the foremost machine is the poster's slogan in large letters, 'Keep that gangway clear', in brown, red and black letters. The artist has signed himself, ''Arthur G Mills'' in the top right corner of the image. |
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| Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
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| Accession number | E.259-2004 |
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| Record created | April 24, 2006 |
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