Venues

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 'Stone Circle, Threlkeld, Cumbria'
    Sketch for 'Stone Circle, Threlkeld, Cumbria' Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • 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
  • 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 (b.1940)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • The Albatross
    The Albatross Sven Berlin (1911–1999)
    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
  • 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
  • 84 more

Artists

  • Storm over Loughrigg
    Percy Frederick Horton (1897–1970)
  • Brooke Westcott (1825–1901), Bishop of Durham (1890–1901)
    William Blake Richmond (1842–1921)
  • Creation Cycle 4, Creation of the Land and the Sea
    Sven Berlin (1911–1999)
  • James Spedding (1808–1881), Literary Editor and Biographer
    Samuel Laurence (1812–1884)
  • Abstract
    unknown artist
  • Feed the World
    Conrad Atkinson (b.1940)
  • Mrs Elizabeth Fletcher as a Girl
    Angus Fletcher (1799–1862)
  • Charles Barnes Upton (1831–1929)
    Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862–1940)
  • John Guy Webster as a Christ's Hospital Boy
    William Bowness (1809–1867)
  • Field Marshall Gomme (1784–1874)
    John Steell (1804–1891)

Stories

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