SHELL FOR QUICK STARTING. 291/2x441/2 inches. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, London. Condition A-: creases, wrinkles and minor restoration in margins. Two ducks are taking flight through wild flowers, thrushes and weeds in this evocative, anonymous image for Shell, whose main advertising depicted places in Britain or images of specific people who used Shell Oil. At some point their advertising must have taken a turn toward the natural world as a similar poster by Tom Purvis (Shell Oil & Petrol / the Quick Starting Pair) depicts two hummingbirds in flight.
