© Estate of Mervyn Peake
Illustrations from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Artist: Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968)
Location: Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
Date: 1943
Materials: Indian ink & wash
Dimensions: average: 22 x 15cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £35,000 (Total: £35,000)
Vendor: Sebastian Peake
Review number: 5900 (2007)
Provenance:
By descent from the artist.
Description:
The Art Fund presented this series of 7 illustrations to the museum in memory of its late director, Dr Robert Woof. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' grew out of the intense creative relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth in the late 1790s. Peake's illustrations are among the most powerful especially his depiction of suffering: of the mariner, the albatross, the crew, and the child-woman who represents Life-in-Death (this image was originally withdrawn from publication as too terrifying). Peake's drawings nevertheless succeed in conveying the elusive redemptive possibilities that Coleridge imagines in the poem but never quite captures.
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