'The Patagonian Penguin' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'The Picadilly nuisance'

'The Picadilly nuisance'

Indianapolis

A group of children and their shrimping baskets in the foreground

View of Leicester Square

30th August 1967

'The Patagonian Penguin' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'The Picadilly nuisance'Ornithological 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.