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Artist/Maker	Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd. (issuer) Nash, John Northcote (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (issued)

Colour offset lithograph and letterpress print poster forming one of a series of Shell County Guides. The design shows a colour illustration of a coastal area of Dorset, with text and a small illustrative map below, against a white ground.

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Categories	Prints Advertising Posters Landscapes
Object type	Poster
Titles	Dorset (generic title) Shell County Guides (series title)
Materials and techniques	Colour offset lithograph and letterpress print Ink Paper Colour Offset Lithography Letterpress Printing
Brief description	'Dorset'. Colour offset lithograph and letterpress print poster forming one of a series of Shell County Guides. Designed by John Northcote Nash and issued by Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., Great Britain, 1961.
Physical description	Colour offset lithograph and letterpress print poster forming one of a series of Shell County Guides. The design shows a colour illustration of a coastal area of Dorset, with text and a small illustrative map below, against a white ground.
Dimensions	Image height: 738mm Image width: 507mm Sheet height: 794mm Sheet width: 560mm Measurements taken from: 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: Height [size of sheet]: 73.6 centimetres x Width [size of sheet]: 50.8 centimetres.
Marks and inscriptions	'John Nash' (Signed)
Credit line	Given by Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd.
Subjects depicted	Village Coastal Map
Place depicted	Dorset
Associated object	E.1506-1963
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . 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
Other number	27/G12 - V&A microfiche
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1508-1963

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O697924/dorset-poster-nash-john-northcote/

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