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Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum

Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum

Image credit: The Wordsworth Trust

Open to the public

Museum or gallery in Cumbria

91 artworks

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Dove Cottage was the home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth between 1799 and 1808. Their manuscripts, books and portraits, along with those of other key figures of Romanticism, are displayed in the adjacent museum. The Jerwood Centre, opened 2005, holds the main collection of 65,000 items, which also includes paintings and drawings of the Lake District.

Town End, Grasmere, Cumbria LA22 9SH England

enquiries@wordsworth.org.uk

015394 35544

Dove Cottage and The Worsdworth Museum are open each day, except for 3 days at Christmas and most of January for cleaning.

http://www.wordsworth.org.uk

Artworks

  • Sketch for 'The Solitary Wanderer and the Poet'
    Sketch for 'The Solitary Wanderer and the Poet' Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • Sketch for 'Stone Circle, Threlkeld, Cumbria'
    Sketch for 'Stone Circle, Threlkeld, Cumbria' Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • Scafell, Looking North
    Scafell, Looking North Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • Golden Landscape with Pain
    Golden Landscape with Pain Conrad Atkinson (1940–2022)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • The Albatross
    The Albatross Sven Berlin (1911–1999)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • Yews in Mardale Church Yard before Destruction
    Yews in Mardale Church Yard before Destruction Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • Stone Circle, Threlkeld, Cumbria
    Stone Circle, Threlkeld, Cumbria Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • 84 more

Artists

  • An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
    Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
  • 'Love's Labour's Lost', Act II, Scene 1, the Arrival of the Princess of France
    Thomas Stothard (1755–1834)
  • Self Portrait
    Thomas Creswick (1811–1869)
  • The Bay of Naples
    James Baker Pyne (1800–1870)
  • Clement Fothergill Pitman (1894–1973), Art Director and Curator of Nottingham Castle Museum (1930–1959)
    Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
  • William Murdoch (1754–1839)
    Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781–1841)
  • Creation Cycle 9, Adam Naming the Animals
    Sven Berlin (1911–1999)
  • Rhyl Sands
    David Cox the elder (1783–1859)
  • Mrs William Lucas
    Jacob Thompson (1806–1879)
  • Sir George Beaumont
    George Howland Beaumont (1753–1827)

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