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Everywhere You Go You Can Be Sure Of Shell

Poster
1936 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd. (issuer)
Miller, Robert (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising Shell Motor Spirit. The design depicts the Devil's Elbow, the hairpin bend of a mountain road to Braemar in Aberdeenshire.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Posters
Scotland
Object type
Poster
Titles
  • Everywhere You Go You Can Be Sure Of Shell (series title)
  • Devil's Elbow, Braemar
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Lithographic Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Devil's Elbow, Braemar'. Colour lithograph poster advertising Shell Motor Spirit. Part of the 'Everywhere You Go You Can Be Sure Of Shell' advertisement series. Designed by Robert Miller and issued by Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., Great Britain, 1936.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising Shell Motor Spirit. The design depicts the Devil's Elbow, the hairpin bend of a mountain road to Braemar in Aberdeenshire.
Dimensions
  • Height: 74.2cm
  • Width: 113.7cm
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
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Miller' (Signed)
  • 'EVERYWHERE YOU GO' (Design text lettered above image.)
  • 'YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL' (Design text lettered below image.)
  • 'DEVIL'S ELBOW, BRAEMAR' (Lettered below bottom-left corner of image.)
  • 'ROBERT MILLER' (Lettered below bottom-right corner of image.)
Credit line
Given by Shell Mex Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Travel
Tourism
Mountains
Road
Place depicted
Aberdeenshire
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1938, London: Board of Education, 1939.
Other number
27/A8 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2635-1938

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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