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Peel from Kirk Michael

Date made: c.1868

Artist: Wilson, Mary Elinor

Description: Observation from the road to Kirk Michael: “During the season [Peel] port is the rendezvous for fishing sloops from every quarter. As many as three hundred will at times bring their nightly ‘take’ to this market. The appearance of this little flotilla in the morning sun is truly lovely.” (Dr Robert Paterson, Manx Antiquities, 1863, M 02321)

A pencil sketch from the sketchbook of Mary Elinor Wilson, daughter of Reverend Edward Wilson (the first headmaster of King William's College). A note accompanying the sketchbook states: "Mary Elinor Wilson went on tour to Switzerland and Norway with Alice Temple Chevalier in 1854. Alice Temple Chevalier was the daughter of Temple Chevalier, Vicar of Esh near Durham and Professor of Astronomy and Hebrew at Durham University. One of his daughters married Stuart Pears, afterwards H.M. of Repton. Temple Chevalier was 3rd Wrangler and helped James Maurice Wilson [brother of Mary Elinor] during vacations from Cambridge by giving him a sound grounding in Astronomy. (signed A.T.W. 12.05.1927 from conversation with James Maurice Wilson, Archedeacon of Manchester)

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Measurements: 12cm x 19cm

Materials: pencil on paper

Object name: sketch book

Collection: Art Collection

ID number: 1954-6018/36

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