Elcock Howard Keppie

Year working: 1886 - 1952

Front cover design for The Autocar magazine 17th February 1928 advertising Morris cars. According to the Conan Doyle website referenced below Howard K. Elcock was a British illustrator. He worked for The Strand Magazine, Illustrated London News and Punch. He also designed posters for the Underground Group between 1928 and 1931, and also posters for Shell and the LNER (London & North Eastern Railway) during the 1920s. Between 1919 and 1926, he did 50+ illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's works.

1930 poster for London General Bus Company

Shell poster

Sports and Sportsmen magazine Feb 1921. Image courtesy of the Richard Roberts Archive.

Sports and Sportsmen magazine April 1921. Image courtesy of the Richard Roberts Archive.

Berne Grand Prix 1934. Very different in style to usual art, yet clearly signed Howard K Elcock.

Howard K Elcock - The Duke of Westminster and his armoured cars dash to the rescue of shipwrecked crews seized by the Senussi Cyrenaica North Africa 17 March 1916

Autocar front cover 15 April 1927