Henry Montagu (fl.1806-1883)

A view of Rydal Mount, Cumbria

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Henry Montagu (fl.1806-1883)
A view of Rydal Mount, Cumbria
inscribed 'The Seat of William Wordsworth Esqr Rydal Mount' (on the reverse of the mount)
pencil and watercolour, with gum arabic, and with scratching out, unframed
7 x 10.5/8 in. (19 x 27 cm.)

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr Robert Wooff of Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum for positively identifying the present watercolour as the seat of William Wordsworth, as is suggested in the inscription on the reverse.

It has also been pointed out that the house itself has been quite radically altered since the late 1800s, but that a print, as well as several sketches of the same view, hangs in Rydal Mount to this day.

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