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Women: stop MP's ripping up your right to abortion

Poster
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Landscape poster. The main image is printed in black with some of the lettering in red. The image depicts a man in a suit from the neck to the waist ripping up the 1967 Abortion act. The style is illustrative, with details reproducing shaded pencil sketching, against a solid mass of black for the man's suit.


Object details

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Object type
TitleWomen: stop MP's ripping up your right to abortion
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph printed in black and red on paper
Brief description
"Women: Stop MP's ripping up your right to abortion", pro-choice poster. UK, c. late 1970s.
Physical description
Landscape poster. The main image is printed in black with some of the lettering in red. The image depicts a man in a suit from the neck to the waist ripping up the 1967 Abortion act. The style is illustrative, with details reproducing shaded pencil sketching, against a solid mass of black for the man's suit.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30cm
  • Width: 42cm
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
Collection
Accession number
E.1491-2004

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Record createdJune 11, 2008
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