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Shell for Quick Starting

Poster
1930 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd. (issuer)
North, Kennedy S. (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising Shell Motor Spirit, part of the 'Shell for Quick Starting series. The central image shows snipe (a type of wading bird) in flight, 'SHELL FOR QUICK STARTING' lettered below.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleShell for Quick Starting (series title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Shell for Quick Starting'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Shell Motor Spirit, depicting snipe in flight. Designed by Kennedy S. North and issued by Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., 1930.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising Shell Motor Spirit, part of the 'Shell for Quick Starting series. The central image shows snipe (a type of wading bird) in flight, 'SHELL FOR QUICK STARTING' lettered below.
Dimensions
  • Height: 74cm
  • Width: 109.4cm
Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO 1963
Marks and inscriptions
'SHELL FOR QUICK STARTING' (Lettered below the image.)
Subject depicted
Snipe
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
  • 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 numbers
  • 29/A4
  • C.11602 - Previous number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.492-1953

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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