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Exhibition Review
John Smith. Grasmere
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 293-294
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Reviewer:
Green, Richard (Green, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Smith, John Irthington, also known as Warwick Smith, 1749-1831
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, Great Britain
places:
Grasmere / England
print:
Smith, John Irthington, also known as Warwick Smith, 1749-1831
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
A Cumbrian Artist Rediscovered: John Smith (1749–1831) | institution: Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
66. From Calgarth looking up the Lake, by John Smith. c.1788–92. Watercolour, 34.6 by 50.4 cm. (Wordsworth Trust; exh. Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere).
Attributed works:
67. The ferry, Windermere, by John Smith. c.1788–92. Watercolour, 34.6 by 50.4 cm. (Curwen family; exh. Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere).
Exhibition Review
Artists in the Lakes. Grasmere and Birmingham
01/2011 | 1294 | 153
Pages: 54-55
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Reviewer:
Green, Richard (Green, Richard)
Subjects
art literature:
Wordsworth, William
dates:
2010-2019
dates:
1750-1849
dates:
1770-1779 / 1780-1829 / 1830-1909
museums and institutions:
Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Great Britain
places:
Grasmere / Lake District / England
places:
Birmingham
print:
Lake District
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Romanticism / British painting / British / English / Watercolours / Sketchbooks
subjects:
Collections, Public
subjects:
Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts: Discovering the Lake District 1750–1820 | institution: Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum
subjects:
‘A Rage for the Lakes’: Lake District Views from Abbot Hall Art Gallery | institution: Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
59. Borrowdale, by Thomas Girtin. c.1801. Pencil and watercolour, 31 by 47.1 cm. (Wordsworth Trust; exh. Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere).
Attributed works:
60. Ullswater, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1795. Canvas, 44.4 by 52 cm. (Wordsworth Trust; exh. Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere).
Attributed works:
61. Derwentwater, by Edward Lear. 24th September 1836. Watercolour, black chalk and bodycolour, 18.1 by 25.6 cm. (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; exh. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).
Article
Thomas Woolner’s Wordsworth Memorial, 1851: Pre-Raphaelite sources and slips
06/2009 | 1275 | 151
Pages: 382-387
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Author:
Neale, Anne (Neale, Anne)
Subjects
artists:
Woolner, Thomas
artists:
Humphreys, Henry Noel
dates:
1850-1859
places:
Grasmere / England
print:
Woolner, Thomas
print:
Wordsworth, William
subjects:
British sculpture / Wordsworth, William / Memorials / Marbles / Reliefs / Portraits / Pre-Raphaelite / Commissions / Illuminations / Published illustrations / Flowers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
28. Detail of the Wordsworth Memorial, by Thomas Woolner. 1851. Marble 44 by 78 cm. (St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere, Cumbria). The floriated panels depict daffodils and violets on the left, and celandines and snowdrops on the right.
Attributed works:
29. William Wordsworth, by Francis Chantrey. 1820. Marble, 51 cm. high. (Wordsworth Collection, Lilly Library, University of Indiana).
Attributed works:
30. Three borders and a sample page from the Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1845, by Henry Noel Humphreys, after the Hours of Anne of Brittany, late fifteenth century. Chromolithographed by Owen Jones.
Attributed works:
31. Modified detail of the Wordsworth Memorial, by Thomas Woolner, with flo­riated panels from the Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary of 1845 superimposed.
Western art unattributed:
32. Lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria). From J.G. Sturm: Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen, Stuttgart 1796, pl.59.
Western art unattributed:
33. Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus). From O.W. Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Gera 1885, pl.262.
Exhibition Review
English Drawing Masters. Cambridge and Grasmere
03/1988 | 1020 | 130
Pages: 247
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Reviewer:
Herrmann, Luke (Herrmann, Luke; H., L.)
Subjects
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
places:
Grasmere / England / Cambridge
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
subjects:
British painting / Drawings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
57. Plate 4 from James Roberts's Introductory Lessons, 1800. Coloured Aquatint by Stadler. (Private Collection; Exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Dove Cottage, Grasmere).
Attributed works:
58. An Avenue, Plate 10 from J. D. Harding's Elementary Art, 1845. Lithograph. (Private Collection; Exh. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Dove Cottage, Grasmere).