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Chalk charmers
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Penguin sketches: Signed by legendary polar explorers.
Penguin sketches made by legendary explorers Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton have been found in a basement at Cambridge University. They had drawn the pictures on blackboards, probably for public lectures, in 1904 and 1909. Nobody knows how the fragile images, in need of cleaning and restoration, ended up at the University’s Scott Polar Research Institute. Staff are appealing for donations to help preserve the signed chalk drawings and put them on public display.
“People often compare Scott and Shackleton in terms of their achievements as explorers and their leadership qualities,” said Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones, the historian and curator of art, who found the images. ‘Now, albeit with a smile on our faces, we can judge their artistic abilities as well.” He said they were still trying to trace how the pictures arrived at the institute but he was sure they were authentic. Scott made his drawing in 1904, after returning from his voyage aboard the Discovery. Shackleton, who also took part in the Discovery expedition, made his sketch five years later, after coming within 150 km (90 miles) of the South Pole — the furthest south any group had been at the time.
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