Please pack parcels very carefully
Poster
April 1959 (made)
April 1959 (made)
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Poster encouraging the public to carefully wrap parcels. The image, on a green background, features a broken blue and white ceramic creamer shaped like a cow, decorated with pink spots. Its body is in seven pieces, demarked by jagged edges. It has a teardrop on its face, falling from its eye. This ceramic creature sits within a yellow and brown ovoid-shaped area, representing its wrapping, with a length of white string emerging from underneath. At the top of the poster is the slogan, 'Please pack parcels very carefully'. The artist has signed himself, 'Eckersley' in the lower left corner.
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Title | Please pack parcels very carefully (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
Brief description | 'Please pack parcels very carefully', poster depicting a broken ornament, designed by Tom Eckersley for the GPO, United Kingdom (London), April 1959 |
Physical description | Poster encouraging the public to carefully wrap parcels. The image, on a green background, features a broken blue and white ceramic creamer shaped like a cow, decorated with pink spots. Its body is in seven pieces, demarked by jagged edges. It has a teardrop on its face, falling from its eye. This ceramic creature sits within a yellow and brown ovoid-shaped area, representing its wrapping, with a length of white string emerging from underneath. At the top of the poster is the slogan, 'Please pack parcels very carefully'. The artist has signed himself, 'Eckersley' in the lower left corner. |
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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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Other number | LS.2006 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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Accession number | E.1009-2004 |
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Record created | April 28, 2006 |
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