Family of birds in the order Sphenisciformes

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Two penguins converse about AIDS representing an advertisement for AIDS and HIV-related events between 28th and 30th November and 1st and 3rd December (1998?) in Japan. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.

Left, the Patagonian penguin; right, the Magellanic penguin. Coloured etching by J. Pass after G. Edwards.

Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round circular images of the Antarctic Ocean with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing by E. Wilson?, c.1844.

Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round images of the Antarctic Sea with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing, c.1844.

Christmas Harbour in Kerguelen Island (South Indian Ocean), Captain Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery in the bay. Engraving by J. Newton, 1784, after J. Webber.

Two penguins standing, with a hand holding an opened sardine can in the foreground

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Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round images of the Antarctic Sea with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing, c.1844.

Two penguins converse about AIDS representing an advertisement for AIDS and HIV-related events between 28th and 30th November and 1st and 3rd December (1998?) in Japan. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.

Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round circular images of the Antarctic Ocean with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing by E. Wilson?, c.1844.

Christmas Harbour in Kerguelen Island (South Indian Ocean), Captain Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery in the bay. Engraving by J. Newton, 1784, after J. Webber.

Two penguins standing, with a hand holding an opened sardine can in the foreground