Printing plate etched with a drawing of a baby by Mervyn Peake [probably his son Sebastian Peake]. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1965. Undated.
Printing plate etched with decorative border by Mervyn Peake drawn for the cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (London: Allan Wingate, 1954), featuring characters from Through the Looking Glass. Block inscribed 'Mrs Peake'. Card stuck to reverse of block featur...
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake of oriental figure wearing a loin cloth and a pointed hat kneeling next to a snake wearing a crown. This image was published in Poems and Drawings by Mervyn Peake (London: Keepsake Press, 1965). Block inscribed 'Peake'. The image is dated 1956 bu...
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake. This image was used for a greetings card from Mervyn and Maeve Gilmore [see Add MS 88931/13/12]. Undated.
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake of human-cat hybrid and human-donkey? hybrid, both raising their arms over their heads. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card 1968. Larger version of Add MS 88931/13/6/21. Block inscribed 'Peake'. Undated.
Printing plate etched with image of the 'Harlequin Phoenix' leaping from flames holding an unlit torch. Published in Thelma Niklaus, Harlequin Phoenix (London: Bodley Head, 1956). Undated.
Printing plate etched with drawing by Mervyn Peake of human-cat hybrid and human-donkey? hybrid, both raising their arms over their heads. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1968. Smaller version of Add MS 88931/13/6/20. Undated.
Printing plate etched with sketch of man and dog by Mervyn Peake. Surface of wooden block inscribed 'Peake'. This image was used for the Peake family Christmas card of 1981. Undated.
Printing plate (lacking woodblock mount) etched with image by Mervyn Peake of Jim Hawkins stood on the shore [of Skeleton Island?] looking across the water to some rocks. Published in Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, illustrated by Mervyn Peake (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949).
'Gormenghast' Manuscript: Barquentine and Steerpike
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Printing plate photo-etched with image from one of the Gormenghast notebooks [Add MS 88931/1/3/15 f.139v-140] showing a drawing of Barquentine and Steerpike alongside Peake's autograph text. Undated [but must date from after 1948 as this is when the notebook was begun].