Isle of Man
Water-Colours

A Heaton Cooper

Published Spring 1920.

LIST OF WATER-COLOURS
BY A. HEATON COOPER

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).

Contents

1.

A Heaton Cooper -  Peel Harbour and Castle
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.

A Heaton Cooper - Douglas Bay
Douglas Bay (a Midsummer's Night)

Viewed from Douglas Head

3.

A Heaton Cooper - Castletown
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.

A Heaton Cooper -  Port St. Mary
Port St. Mary

 

5.

A Heaton Cooper - Spanish Head
Spanish Head

 

6.

A Heaton Cooper - The Hamlet of Cregneesh and the Calf of Man
The Hamlet of Cregneesh and the Calf of Man

Cregneish - St Peter's church to right

7.

A Heaton Cooper - Glen Meay (Showery Weather)
Glen Meay (Showery Weather)

Glen Maye (Moij) -

8.

A Heaton Cooper - Peel Bay and Castle
Peel Bay and Castle

 

9.

A Heaton Cooper - The Tynwald
The Tynwald

Tynwald Hill - the finger post reads 'Peel'

10.

A Heaton Cooper - Dhoon Glen
Dhoon Glen

Dhoon Glen -

11.

A Heaton Cooper - Ballaglass Glen
Ballaglass Glen

Ballaglass -

12.

A Heaton Cooper - Maughold Church
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.

A Heaton Cooper - Maughold Head
Maughold Head

No lighthouse - not finished until 1914

14.

A Heaton Cooper - Ramsey Bay
Ramsey Bay

 

15.

A Heaton Cooper - Sulby Glen and Snaefell
Sulby Glen and Snaefell

 

16.

A Heaton Cooper - The Ballaugh Curragh
The Ballaugh Curragh

 

17.

A Heaton Cooper - Ballaugh Old Church
Ballaugh Old Church

Ballaugh - Old St Mary's

18.

A Heaton Cooper - Point of Ayre
Point of Ayre

Lighthouse in distance - the 'beach' here is shingle.

19.

A Heaton Cooper - The Calf of Man from Spanish Head
The Calf of Man from Spanish Head

 

20.

A Heaton Cooper - Bradda Head, Port Erin (Moonlight)
Bradda Head, Port Erin (Moonlight)
on the Cover

Bradda Head with Milner's tower

 

 

 


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