Object number
1949.7
Title
Antarctic Love-Birds
Creator
Description
Watercolour picture, with pencil and ink, in the form of a cartoon showing Henry Pennell (commander of the Terra Nova) and Edward Atkinson (ship's surgeon). They are dressed in their naval uniform but shown as birds on a tree branch: Possibly by Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, 1910 - 1912, but more likely the cartoonist Denis Lillie
Production place
Antarctica, Terra Nova
Date
1910 - 1912
Production period
Early 20th century
School/style
British 19th/20th cent.
Material
Technique
Dimensions
- h: image354mm
- w: image250mm
- h: paper390mm
- w: paper292mm
Inscription
Cock-a doodle-do / Water Ship / Stop Engines / lower skiff / times please / Out trawl. / look out for a steady / Hard-a-Starboard[L] Harry Pennell [R] E.L. Atkinson.ANTARCTIC / LOVE-BIRDS. / (Penelopatchicus antarctica) / B.A.E. Collection.
