'Papestry' on permanent display after 7,000 visits
Steven HaddockAn 18ft-long drawing of Lincoln's historic cobbled Bailgate area and Steep Hill is to become a permanent fixture of the city's gallery.
About 7,000 people visited the so-called "papestry" during its time on display at the Usher Gallery between 20 June and 12 July – a number the museum said was "unheard of".
The labour of love took architectural designer Matthew Wright nearly a year to draw.
The gallery's James Sharples said: "It's absolutely fantastic, and an absolute win that we can put it on display permanently."
Matthew WrightWright likened the detailed drawing process to "birthing a child".
He told the BBC in May that he "loved the process: the drawing of it, the learning about the different buildings, about the architecture, about the history."
Sharples said that on the final Saturday of the exhibition there were about 1,000 visitors.
"In over 30 years, we've never seen numbers like that in the Usher Gallery," he said.
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