Request to view

This object can be requested via email from the Prints & Drawings Study Room

Image of Gallery in South Kensington

We don’t have an image of this object online yet.

More about images

V&A Images may have a photograph that we can’t show online, but it may be possible to supply one to you. Email us at vaimages@vam.ac.uk for guidance about fees and timescales, quoting the accession number: E.1890-2004

Serve as a soldier vote as a citizen

Poster
1945 (designed)
Artist/Maker
H. M. Stationery Office (publisher)
Field & Sons C. Ltd. (printers)
Games, Abram (designer)
Place of origin
Bradford (printed)

Poster urging serving soldiers to use their vote, featuring a hand holding a yellow pencil. The wrist and the end of the pencil form a silhouette of the Palace of Westminster, Parliament, with the clock tower, known as Big Ben, constructed from the end of the pencil. Three clouds, coloured red, white and blue float around the clock. The slogan, which is placed either side of the point of the pencil is ‘Serve as a Soldier vote as a citizen.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Politics
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleServe as a soldier vote as a citizen (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Paper
Ink
Lithography
Brief description
'Serve as a Soldier Vote as a Citizen', poster urging soldiers to use their vote, designed by Abram Games for HMSO, London, about 1945
Physical description
Poster urging serving soldiers to use their vote, featuring a hand holding a yellow pencil. The wrist and the end of the pencil form a silhouette of the Palace of Westminster, Parliament, with the clock tower, known as Big Ben, constructed from the end of the pencil. Three clouds, coloured red, white and blue float around the clock. The slogan, which is placed either side of the point of the pencil is ‘Serve as a Soldier vote as a citizen.
Dimensions
  • Height: 74.1cm
  • Width: 48.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • "SERVE AS A SOLDIER VOTE AS A CITIZEN' (White letters, with pencil point at centre)
  • 'It is your right and duty as a responsible citizen of a great democracy to get on / to the Electoral Register so as to be able to record your vote at the next election. / You are doing your share as a soldier - play your part as a citizen. / Fill in A.F.B. 2626 which gets you onto the Register.' (First two lines are white the rest red letters, below the main image)
  • 'A. GAMES' (Artist's name, upper left corner)
  • 'PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FIELD SONS & CO. LTD., BRADFORD, 51/842' (Printer and Publisher's details, lower left corner)
  • 'P. R. 109.' (Issue number? lower right corner)
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
Subjects depicted
Democracy
Hands
Pencils
Clock Towers
Clouds
World War II (1939-45)
Place depicted
Palace of Westminster
Other number
LS.2060 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1890-2004

About this object record

Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images. It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum. Some of our records may contain offensive and discriminatory language, or reflect outdated ideas, practice and analysis. We are committed to addressing these issues, and to review and update our records accordingly.

You can write to us to suggest improvements to the record.

Suggest feedback

Record createdJune 30, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125614/serve-as-a-soldier-vote-poster-games-abram/
Download as: JSON