Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cecil Henry Meares; Lawrence Oates NPG P121

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert George Ponting

Two of Captain Scott's companions on his last Antarctic expedition. Oates, nicknamed 'the soldier' and called by Scott 'the cheery old pessimist', was devoted to animals. Meares, a linguist, was taken on as an interpreter of Russian, and was also in charge of the dogs. The photograph shows them (Oates on the right) at the blubber-stove in the stable at the winter quarters at Cape Evans, where they were constantly seen cooking bran-mash for the ponies. Ponting was commissioned to film and photograph Scott's expedition.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.