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Museums act to stop Lewis Carroll's photos of the `real Alice' going to US

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020120
Author:James Morrison

BY JAMES MORRISON

Lewis Carroll's photographs of the girl immortalised in Alice in Wonderland may be saved for the nation by an alliance of some of Britain's biggest museums.

Carroll's 13 portraits of Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, have faced an uncertain future since they were sold as part of a huge auction of related items at Sotheby's in London last summer. When the Government learnt that anonymous collectors in the United States had bought them, it imposed a temporary export bar, giving British curators a chance to match their pounds 583,000 selling price.

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