Keep Britain Tidy

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Artist/Maker	Ministry of Housing and Local Government (issuer) Games, Abram (designer) Central Office of Information (issuer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

'Keep Britain Tidy'. Colour lithograph poster with a design featuring a pastiche of Britannia, with a figure seated in a wheeled cart, holding a road brush as the staff and with text on his torso. The wheel spokes represent the British flag. Text is in green, blue and red against a blue backround. Signed.

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Categories	Prints Propaganda Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Keep Britain Tidy
Materials and techniques	Colour lithography Colour Lithography
Brief description	'Keep Britain Tidy'. Colour lithograph poster with a design featuring a pastiche of Britannia. Designed by Abram Games. Prepared for the Ministry of Housing and Local Government by the Central Office of Information. Great Britain. 1951.
Physical description	'Keep Britain Tidy'. Colour lithograph poster with a design featuring a pastiche of Britannia, with a figure seated in a wheeled cart, holding a road brush as the staff and with text on his torso. The wheel spokes represent the British flag. Text is in green, blue and red against a blue backround. Signed.
Dimensions	Height: 73.4cm Width: 49.4cm Dimensions 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.)
Subjects depicted	Pastiche Cart Brush Britannia
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 numbers	14/D2 - V&A microfiche C.22807 - Previous number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.152-1980

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O550958/keep-britain-tidy-poster-games-abram/

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