Castletown
Date made: August 1843
Description: “An airy and pleasant town. The houses are tolerably uniform, and the streets are spacious and regular…There is at this place a very excellent inn, kept by Mr Downes, an Englishman, and a variety of shops, one of which, opposite the castle, is superior to most in the Island." (Nathaniel Jefferys, A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Isle of Man, 1809, M 00904)
Painting from an album of Manx watercolours by Emily M. Fane, painted when she visited the Island in August 1843.
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Measurements: overall: 29 cm x 41 cm
Materials: watercolour on paper
Object name: painting
Collection: Art Collection
ID number: 1980-0001/3