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Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum

Photo 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

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http://www.wordsworth.org.uk

Artworks

  • Scafell, Looking North
    Scafell, Looking North 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
  • 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
  • Mrs Simpson
    Mrs Simpson Percy Frederick Horton (1897–1970)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • Lakeland Landscape
    Lakeland Landscape Percy Frederick Horton (1897–1970)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • Golden Landscape with Pain
    Golden Landscape with Pain Conrad Atkinson (b.1940)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • Storm over Loughrigg
    Storm over Loughrigg Percy Frederick Horton (1897–1970)
    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum
  • 84 more

Artists

  • Thomas Wilkinson
    Matthew Ellis Nutter (1795–1862)
  • Whitby from Larpool
    unknown artist
  • Mrs William Lucas
    Jacob Thompson (1806–1879)
  • John Guy Webster as a Christ's Hospital Boy
    William Bowness (1809–1867)
  • Rhyl Sands
    David Cox the elder (1783–1859)
  • Yanwath Hall
    Mary Dixon
  • 'Solitary' (The Wanderer and the Poet)
    Delmar Harmood Banner (1896–1983)
  • Creation Cycle 9, Adam Naming the Animals
    Sven Berlin (1911–1999)
  • The Thames at Richmond from the Middlesex Bank, Looking towards Richmond Bridge
    Ramsay Richard Reinagle (1775–1862)
  • Charles Barnes Upton (1831–1929)
    Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862–1940)

Stories

Events

  •

    6 - 8 October 2023

    ‘Glowworms everywhere’: A three-day creative retreat

    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum

  • 9 November 2023

    Discovering the Lake District: Collecting the Past with Tony Mehew

    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum

  • 7 December 2023

    ‘To Dora, From her Affectionate Father’: Inscriptions and Human Stories with Stephen Gill

    Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum

Venues in Cumbria

  •
    Abbot Hall
  • Appleby-in-Westmorland Moot Hall
  • Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall
  • Brantwood
  • Carlisle Civic Centre
  • Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle
  • Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow
  • Cumbria's Museum of Military Life
  • Grizedale Sculpture
  • Hawkshead Grammar School