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.
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.