Alfred Wainwright sketches set to go to auction A Wainwright sketch of Bowness Bay, signed by Wainwright about 40 years later, is up for auction with 1818 Auctioneers, and estimated to make £1,500-2,000 Rare items given to a South Lakes family by Alfred and Betty Wainwright are set to go under the hammer this month. Estimated to make over £4,000, they include a thank you card, a set of Lakes and Lune Water Board illustrated accounts for 1973 and a pension form. There is also a Wainwright sketch of Bowness Bay – signed almost 40 years later by Wainwright and given by him to Mike Duff, a signed Wainwright map which Alfred Wainwright gave to Percy Duff and a signed copy of his Coast to Coast book.