How to Buy Oil

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Artist/Maker	Purvis, Tom (artist)
Place of origin	England (designed and printed)

A man standing beside a bright red motor oil container turns towards a woman in a yellow car wearing green.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	How to Buy Oil (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph. Mounted.
Brief description	Tom Purvis; 'How to Buy Oil, Cheaper, Cleaner, Quicker Shell'; Britain; 1925
Physical description	A man standing beside a bright red motor oil container turns towards a woman in a yellow car wearing green.
Dimensions	Height: 75cm Width: 113cm
Marks and inscriptions	How to buy oil! (Main text printed in black, top left.) - cheaper / - cleaner / -quicker (Main text printed in red, top left.) No. 117 (Small text, bottom left.) Tom Purvis (Artist's signature, bottom left.) J.R & Co. Ltd. (Small text, bottom right.) SHELL / MOTOR OIL (Lettered within image, on the image of a red motor oil container, bottom right.)
Credit line	Accepted by H M Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2007
Subjects depicted	Car Man Woman
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2701-2007

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Record created	August 6, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1136059/how-to-buy-oil-poster-purvis-tom/

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