This toy penguin is thought to have belonged to the photographer Herbert Ponting, nicknamed ‘Ponko’. It’s an early example of a promotional item for a film, The Great White silence (1924) which Ponting made about Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica in the early 1910s.
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Earlier Event: November 25
‘Little Monster’ (unknown date) by Peter Clough, Manchester Art Gallery
Later Event: December 9
‘The Black-Country Steelworkers’ (1992) by Andrew Tift, The New Art Gallery, Walsall