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A Llama; and a Sheep with a Viscacha Blackboard sketches for a lecture on Tierra del Fuego charcoal and coloured chalk on paper (2) 101.5 x 135cm

Footnote: Provenance: Chorley's, Gloucestershire, 'Sir Peter Scott Drawings, Prints, Books and Medals and other items, from the Estate of Lady Philippa Scott', 16th December 2010, lot 92 The only child of the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the famous sculptor Kathleen Bruce, Sir Peter Scott was a man of remarkable talent. He was a distinguished ornithologist, conservationist, wildlife artist, broadcaster, and an accomplished sportsman, notably winning a bronze medal in sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was only two years old when his father died in the doomed Terra Nova expedition to reach the South Pole. Sir Peter took an interest in wildlife and natural history at an early age. He went on to study Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, but graduated with a degree in Art History in 1931. He pursued his interests in the arts and wildlife, leading worldwide expeditions to remote places such as Antarctica and the Galapagos Islands. The following lots were originally drawn as blackboard sketches for one of the lectures that Sir Peter gave during such expeditions. Throughout the 1970s, he was a frequent lecturer on the Lindblad Explorer, an expedition cruise ship commissioned in 1969 by the Swedish-born explorer and pioneer of expedition tours, Lars-Eric Lindblad. The voyage to Antarctica started at the world’s southernmost city - Ushuaia - the capital of Tierra del Fuego. Sir Peter served as staff on board of the Explorer alongside other famous people in the expedition world – a fellow painter Keith Shackleton (who was distantly related to Sir Ernest Shackleton), the mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, and the prominent shark experts Ron and Valerie Taylor, among others. In 1951, Sir Peter married Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby with whom he shared his lifelong passion for wildlife conservation. The present blackboard sketches formed part of Lady Scott’s estate which was sold in December 2010.

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