Penguin Collection

Oxo advertisement - Scott Antarctic expedition endorsement
Advertisement for Oxo as supplied to Captain Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. The advert quotes a letter from Scott who wrote

Peary and Cook dispute over the North Pole
Robert Peary and Frederick Cook dispute over who reached the North Pole first -- but the real question is whether either of them got there at all

Yellow Eyed Penguin and Snares Crested Penguin
Yellow Eyed Penguin or Hoiho, Megadyptes, and Snares Crested Penguin, Eudyptes robustus. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Spheniscus magellanicus, Magellanic penguin
Ff. 83. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Kodak jar with pebbles from Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes for
Kodak jar with pebbles from emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) stomach Collected by Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition

Pygoscelis antarcticus, chinstrap penguin
Ff. 82. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Aptenodytes antartica and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Reconstruction of extinct Archaeopteryx birds in a Gingko forest. Illustration by Hugo Wolff-Maage from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life, Georg Dollheimer, Leipzig, 1932

Victorian Greeting Card - Christmas Penguins
Two penguins out for a stroll carring a christmas goose. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Penguins Skating
Five penguins skating on a pond. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Penguins in the Rain
Five penguins walk home in the rain. Date: circa 1890

Extinct greak auk, puffin and emperor penguin
Extinct great auk, Pinguinus impennis e, emperor penguin g, Aptenodytes forsteri g, great crested grebe b, Podiceps cristatus, Atlantic puffin f, Fratercula arctica, black guillemot d

Southern rockhopper penguin and wandering albatross
Southern rockhopper penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome (vulnerable), and wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans (vulnerable). Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies

Little blue penguin, Eudyptula minor, and tufted puffin, Fratercula cirrhata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus, juvenile (Woolly penguin). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824

Little penguin or white-flippered penguin
Little penguin, Eudyptula minor, or white-flippered penguin, Eudyptula minor albosignata (Aptenodytes minor). Handcoloured copperplate drawn

African penguin, Spheniscus demersus (Pinguin de Bengale, Diomedea demersa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Leitner jun

King penguin and mandrill
King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus 1, and mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx, vulnerable, 2. Manchot, mandril. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pfitzer after an illustration by Adolph Fries

Marking nut and pinuela fruit
Marking nut, Semecarpus anacardium 1 and penguin or pinuela fruit, Bromelia pinguin 2. Anacardier, Ananas sauvage. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Extinct New Zealand giant penguin, Pachydyptes ponderosus. Chromolithograph from Alfred Brehms Tierleben (Life of Animals), Liepzig, 1890

Ostrich, cassowary, extinct dodo and penguins
Ostrich, Struthio camelus, cassowary, Struthio casuarius, extinct dodo, Raphus cucullatus, and species of penguin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Antarctic seals and penguins with snow and ice
Decorative Christmas frieze, Antarctic seals and penguins with snow and ice

Penguin Pool by Lubetkin
The double helix form of the concrete ramps in the penguin pool at London Zoo designed by Berthold Lubetkin of the Tecton Group in 1934

Wilson & Gill Scott Antarctic expedition souvenirs
Advertisement for Wilson and Gill, goldsmiths of Regent Street, offering a range of souvenirs commemorating the ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1912 led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott

Rockhopper Penguin Feet
A pair of Rockhopper Penguin feet. Date: 1960s

PENGUIN
A penguin standing on the edge of a pool. Date: 1960s

Greetings card in the shape of a penguin with a blank label hung round its neck. Date: circa 1890s

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex. Date: 1962

Misfitz - Penguin. early 20th century

Happy Families Animals - Mrs. Penguin. circa 1940s

Happy Families Animals - Mr Penguin. circa 1940s

Happy Families Animals - Miss Penguin. circa 1940s

Happy Families Animals - Master Penguin. circa 1940s

Music cover, The Penguins Promenade, one or two step, by Theodore Grahame. 1909

WW2 poster, Care of instruments is vital. Your Jar is their Jam. Printed for Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1943

George Ernest Studdy, baby penguins on ice
George Ernest Studdy, illustration for an animal book. Baby penguins have such short legs, they find it difficult to walk on the ice. Date: 1941

Emperor penguin egg collected in 1911, on Scotts last expedition to Antarctica. The hole shows where the embryo was removed for study

Ad鬩e penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae
Ad鬩 e penguin specimen collected during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Penguin. Date: 1933

Puffin, extinct great auk, and emperor penguin.. Handcolored engraving after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richards Oeuvres Completes de Buffon, Paris, Pourrat Freres, 1839

Razorbill, Alca torda, and emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France

WW2 greetings card, RAF man at zoo
WW2 greetings card, RAF man visiting a zoo -- Grounded. Date: circa 1942

Masbadges - 7. The RFC bird
Masbadges! Regimental mascots and badges in one! No. 7 is the Royal Flying Corps Bird, which looks rather like a penguin. Date: 1918

Pug Peter -- animals playing cricket with an orange
Pug Peter -- There She Goes! Animals playing cricket with an orange. Date: 1905

Hagenbeck Circus and Zoo in London
The sights and sounds of the Christmas season at Olympia, London: Carl Hagenbecks Circus and Zoo from Hamburg. Showing the annexe with sea elephants (sea lions), penguins, polar bears

Coloured silhouette of four penguins dancing in a circle. Date: 20th century

Cartoon, The Cult of Queer Pets, showing people in the street, taking their various odd pets for a walk. A lady had recently been seen in Bond Street, London, with a small pig on a lead. Date: 1914

Various birds: a snipe, a pelican with a fish in its beak, an ibis before the pyramids, a penguin, a stormy petrel, and a swan

Follow the Man from Cooks by Ethel Parkinson
A friendly penguin, who is relatively gigantic compared to his human companions, takes them on a tour around his glacier, almost as if he has been employed by tour operator, Thomas Cook! Date: c.1920

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