Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- At upper right, a conical oil can labeled SHELL LUBRICATING OIL, with lay figure holding a shell over its head, on top of the letter "T" of the word IT. At lower left, by the "I": STANDING / STARTING / RUNNING. Above: That is why HUMBER, HILLMAN and SUNBEAM-TALBOT / use and recommend DOUBLE SHELL OIL EXCLUSIVELY; below: STAYS ON THE JOB
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Client
- Shell-Mex and BP Ltd., London, England
- Date
- ca. 1938
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 × 16.8 cm (10 13/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Type
