Dove Cottage by William Heaton Cooper R.I. (1903 - 1995)

Dove Cottage by William Heaton Cooper R.I. (1903 - 1995)Dove Cottage was the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, a noted diarist, from December 1799 to May 1808. Originally a public house, known as the 'Dove and Olive Branch', it first opened as a museum to Wordsworth in 1891. In many ways it has become a shrine to the Romantic poets, their influence on the public perception of nature, and their effect on the international significance of the Lake District itself. William's picture

The former push towards abstraction was replaced by a renewed concern with place

Langdale Pikes in Winter captures the soft greys of the fells and the various shades of the snow of the high fells

From his time spent out on the fells

Sunday Crag

orange glaze (113)

Including beautiful photography

the celebrated cut-outs and the famous decoration of the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence

This paper is made from a mix of white and black cotton cuttings

120 gsm sketch paper

overlooked by Great Gable to its north-west

Varnished short black handle

elegant prose he celebrates how