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Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum

Grasmere

Title

Peter Bell

Date

1807

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 34.6 x W 42.5 cm

Accession number

GRMDC.A51

Acquisition method

purchased with the generous support of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1984

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

suggested by the poem of Peter Bell by William Wordsworth not yet painted. After the close of the poem, Peter Bell is supposed to retire into a cavern, in which he continues stung with remorse and bewailing atrocities until day break. Painted by Sir George Beaumont at Coleorton in the year 1807.

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