Photographers Prefer Shell

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Artist/Maker	Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd. (issuer) Moffat, Curtis (photographer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Poster.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters
Object type	Poster
Titles	Photographers Prefer Shell (trade title) You Can Be Sure Of Shell (series title)
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description	'Photographers Prefer Shell'. Colour offset lithograph poster showing a colour photograph of equipment used in the printing of photographs. Part of the 'You Can Be Sure Of Shell' poster series. Image by Curtis Moffat. Issued by Shell-Mex and B. P. Ltd., Great Britain, 1934.
Physical description	Poster.
Dimensions	Height: 78.74cm Width: 113.98cm Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO 1964
Marks and inscriptions	'PHOTOGRAPHERS PREFER SHELL' (Lettered above image.) 'YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL' (Lettered below image.)
Credit line	Given by Mrs. T. E. Griffits
Subjects depicted	Photography Bottles Colour Photograph
Associated object	CIRC.416-1971 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1957-1958 London: HMSO, 1964 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
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.5155-1958

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O585477/photographers-prefer-shell-poster-moffat-curtis/

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