Isle of Man Water-colours

There is no text in this book (the comments are my own) - thumb-nail images will expand to larger images on CD-ROM. The images are scanned from the book and thus suffer from the poorer colour registration and rendition of the time. The somewhat purpleish shading appears on all and may be an artefact of the printing.

Alfred Heaton Cooper, 1864-1929, was a professional artist who illustrated many guide-books, especially for A. & C. Black. He was born in Manchester though spent his youth in nearby Bolton from where he went to London to study art. After a brief, and financially unsuccessful, stay in Norway (where he met and married his wife) he eventually moved in 1894 to Coniston in the English Lake District, then following the tourist industry to Ambleside where much of his (and his son William's) work was done - the family-based Heaton-Cooper Studio based in Grasmere sells reproductions etc.

This book was published, price 7/6d, by A. & C. Black in their "Watercolour" series. The illustrations were those from W Ralph Hall Caine "Isle of Man" published in 1909 - the images thus probably date from c.1907-1908. Some were also used in "The Isle of Man" by Joseph E Morris, 1911 (A &C Black, "Beautiful Britain" series).

The IoM Post Office choose six of these to illustrate a set of stamps (issue date 21 Oct 2004).

1.	Peel Harbour and Castle (Frontispiece)	Peel harbour viewed from foot bridge across the Neb at end of the harbour - the castle is centre background.
2.	Douglas Bay (a Midsummer's Night)	Viewed from Douglas Head
3.	Castletown	Strictly Castle Rushen rather than Castletown; compare with 1905 view where it obvious that he has telescoped the castle - some of the assorted clutter of buildings, including the life-boat house were removed c.1905
4.	Port St. Mary
5.	Spanish Head
6.	The Hamlet of Cregneesh and the Calf of Man	Cregneish - St Peter's church to right
7.	Glen Meay (Showery Weather)	Glen Maye (Moij) -
8.	Peel Bay and Castle
9.	The Tynwald	Tynwald Hill - the finger post reads 'Peel'
10.	Dhoon Glen	Dhoon Glen -
11.	Ballaglass Glen	Ballaglass -
12.	Maughold Church	Maughold Church - cross still outside the church wall (some 80 years later moved into the church), the strange object in the foreground is a sundial
13.	Maughold Head	No lighthouse - not finished until 1914
14.	Ramsey Bay
15.	Sulby Glen and Snaefell
16.	The Ballaugh Curragh
17.	Ballaugh Old Church	Ballaugh - Old St Mary's
18.	Point of Ayre	Lighthouse in distance - the 'beach' here is shingle.
19.	The Calf of Man from Spanish Head
20.	Bradda Head, Port Erin (Moonlight) on the Cover	Bradda Head with Milner's tower

Isle of Man
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Any comments, errors or omissions gratefully received The Editor HTML Transcription © F.Coakley , 2004

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Isle of Man
Water-Colours