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Use Your Head

Poster
1965 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Ministry of Health (issuer)
Mount, (Edward) Reginald (artist)
Evans, Eileen Margaret (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour offset lithograph anti-smoking poster featuring a reproduction of a wood-engraving of a hand with palmists symbols, with a cigarette placed between the fingers. The palm printed in pink against a dark ground.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Health
Propaganda
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleUse Your Head
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
'Use your HEAD. Don't tempt FATE ... ' Colour lithograph poster advertising the dangers of cigarette smoking. Designed by (Edward) Reginald Mount and Eileen Evans. Produced by the Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health, Great Britain, 1965.
Physical description
Colour offset lithograph anti-smoking poster featuring a reproduction of a wood-engraving of a hand with palmists symbols, with a cigarette placed between the fingers. The palm printed in pink against a dark ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 73.7cm
  • Width: 48.5cm
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.
  • 'Use your HEAD / Don't tempt FATE' ... (Part of text of design, lettered below the image of the palmist's hand.)
Production
Produced by the Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health.
Subjects depicted
Palmistry
Public Health
Propaganda
Hand
Symbols
Associated object
E.526-1985 (Duplicate)
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/G2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.796-1969

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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