Penguin
Penguin
3D
Published 2018-09-05T15:12:09+00:00
This knee-high sculpture depicts a penguin statue.
The penguin statue originally donated by Louis Odette, the philanthropist and former LSE student, with other animal statues, stands on the pavement in Portugal Street, in the heart of the School's campus just off the Aldwych, and the students have embraced it as their unofficial mascot for years now.
The statue was stolen in 2009, leading to gifts of flowers, poems, tins of sardines and Penguin biscuits at the site, presumably to encourage the Penguin to return, and an inevitable Facebook campaign to find the missing sculpture. Eventually, the decision was taken to replace the penguin with a heavier, less steal-able model, which was installed in November 2009, and remains to this day
| Date published | 05/09/2018 |
| Title | Penguin |
| Date | 2002 |
| Accession | Public access at Portugal Street since November 2009 |
| Medium | Painted aluminium |
| Credit | A gift from Mr. and Mrs. L.L. Odette, Toronto |
| Record | http://www.tiredoflondontiredoflife.com/2011/03/find-lse-penguin.html |
| Place | London |
Easy to print penguin