This is one of series of posters commissioned by Shell Mex in the 1930s to promote tourism by motor car to places that were not popular tourist sites. Dinton Castle is a folly, built in 1769 by Sir John Vanhatten to house his collection of fossils, some of which are let into the random rubble walls. The plan is a hexagon with towers at two opposite corners, one for fireplaces and the other for a spiral staircase. Edward McKnight Kauffer was an influential designer, working for many British companies. Here the scene is presented theatrically, as if it were a painting on an easel, draped with a red curtain and with an artist’s palette propped against it.