The Shilling Guides : Shell-Mex & BP Ltd : Lincolnshire : cover by Kenneth Rowntree : 1964
The Shell-Mex and BP "Shilling Guides" were published in the early 1960s as part of the company's wide ranging publishing endeavours that complemented their extensive and highly regarded publicity and advertising activities. The Shilling Guides were general introductions to the area along with a select gazetteer of principle places of interest and were effectively simple reprints of the relevant pages from the much larger Shell-Mex & BP Guide of Britain.
These slender volumes, designed to be purchased at only Shell or BP service stations, were each given a separate commissioned artwork cover, these being by a wide variety of artists and designers. This cover is by Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997) a noted artist whose early years saw him as part of the Ravilious/Bawden set known as the Great Bardfield Artists. After working for the War Artists Advisory Committee in the Second World War Rowntree joined the Royal College of Art before moving north to the Art School at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1959.
The illustration is dominated, as is the county, by the City of Lincoln with its hill top cathedral. Other features shown include the growing of tulips around Spalding and a portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson born at Somersby.
The Shilling Guides : Shell-Mex & BP Ltd : Lincolnshire : cover by Kenneth Rowntree : 1964
The Shell-Mex and BP "Shilling Guides" were published in the early 1960s as part of the company's wide ranging publishing endeavours that complemented their extensive and highly regarded publicity and advertising activities. The Shilling Guides were general introductions to the area along with a select gazetteer of principle places of interest and were effectively simple reprints of the relevant pages from the much larger Shell-Mex & BP Guide of Britain.
These slender volumes, designed to be purchased at only Shell or BP service stations, were each given a separate commissioned artwork cover, these being by a wide variety of artists and designers. This cover is by Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997) a noted artist whose early years saw him as part of the Ravilious/Bawden set known as the Great Bardfield Artists. After working for the War Artists Advisory Committee in the Second World War Rowntree joined the Royal College of Art before moving north to the Art School at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1959.
The illustration is dominated, as is the county, by the City of Lincoln with its hill top cathedral. Other features shown include the growing of tulips around Spalding and a portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson born at Somersby.