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Article: Haunting drawings are donated to Lakes trust.
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- Lakeland Echo (Morecambe, England)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2007
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A UNIQUE set of drawings by Alice in Wonderland illustrator Mervyn Peake have been given to the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, Cumbria.
The collection features illustrations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The Art Fund charity paid [pounds sterling]35,000 for the Indian ink drawings and presented them to the trust in honour of its late director, Dr Robert Woof CBE.
Peake is also known as the author of the Gormenghast trilogy.
The haunting drawings are widely regarded as the most powerful illustrations ever made of the Coleridge poem.
David Barrie, director of The Art Fund, said: "Mervyn Peake's ...