The best tip … Give It Up!

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Artist/Maker	Ministry of Health (issuer) Mount, (Edward) Reginald (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Colour offset lithograph poster showing an ashtray of cigarette ends with the text 'The best tip … GIVE IT UP!' lettered in white across the top of the design.

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Categories	Prints Health Propaganda Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	The best tip … Give It Up!
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description	'The best tip … Give It Up!'. Colour offset lithograph poster designed by (Edward) Reginald Mount, part of an anti-smoking campaign. Prepared by the Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health, Great Britain, ca.1975.
Physical description	Colour offset lithograph poster showing an ashtray of cigarette ends with the text 'The best tip … GIVE IT UP!' lettered in white across the top of the design.
Dimensions	Height: 76.1cm Width: 50.8cm Measurements taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions	Signed. 'The best tip … / GIVE IT UP!' (Lettered in white across the top of the sheet as part of the design.) 'CIGARETTES HARM YOUR HEALTH' (Lettered in white across the bottom of the sheet as part of the design.)
Production	Prepared by the Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health.
Subjects depicted	Public Health Propaganda Cigarettes Ashtrays
Bibliographic reference	Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other number	27/F11 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.210-1982

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548570/the-best-tip--give-poster-mount-edward-reginald/

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