'The Patagonian Penguin' mb-code MP_0118458 30th August 1967

30th August 1967

lower right '1/6'

she holds out a handful of socks

a racing cyclist and one of Britain's greatest ever athletes

'The Patagonian Penguin' mb-code MP_0118458 30th August 1967Ornithological study of a King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), shown in a landscape with a colony of other birds in the background. Plate 34 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever by George Shaw (published by James Parkinson, 1792). The plate is inscribed: 'C. R. Ryley del. J. Fittler sculp. PINGUINARIA PATACHONICA. THE PENGUIN. Published. as the Act directs. July 2. 1792. by I. Parkinson.