3-047-139 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Captain Scott, R.N.', 1925. Illustration of a waxwork at Madame Tussauds, a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French sculptor Marie Tussaud. 'A hero indeed - Captain Robert Falcon Scott. This great explorer, whose chief adventures were in the Antarctic, met his death in his final expedition to the South Pole'. From "Madame Tussaud's: The Palace of Enchantment" described by Capt. Edric Vredenburg, illustrated by Howard Davie, [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, 1925]