He has chalked it up for anyone who doubted it: all my own work. The Dig for Victory campaign was launched in October 1939 by the Ministry of Agriculture. It was still running in 1944. Parks, sports grounds and domestic gardens became vegetable plots. This version carries the printer's imprint of H. Manly & Son Ltd, London N.22, and the HMSO code SI 3415.
Designer unknown.
On the poster
A kneeling gardener in a tilted blue beret and a crooked red bow-tie holds up a black chalkboard that reads "ALL MY OWN WORK". He looks quietly satisfied. Behind him a pile of green cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, onions, beetroot and celery spills across the sheet. Across the top, in cadmium-red brush-script on a cream ground, is the headline "Dig for Victory."
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.




