Chris Beetles Gallery

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Uncle George

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)

Price

£6,500

Signed

Inscribed with title and poem on separate sheet

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

10 x 8 ½ inches

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1871-2022', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November-December 2022, no 148

The complete poem is as follows:

Uncle George became so Nosey
That we bought him a Tea-Cosy

To defend ourselves, and bring
Confusion to the evil thing;

Which angered him so much, we had
To tie him to a blotting pad

Which soaks his energy away
From dawn to dusk, and dusk to day,

Until he's now so out of joint
That he can never see the Point.