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Kirk Michael

Date made: 5 August 1868

Artist: Wilson, Mary Elinor

Description: "Kirk Michael is a pretty village situated in one of the most retired parts of the Island." (Samuel Dukinfield Swarbreck, Tour through the Isle of Man by Captain William Latham, July 1815, M 07398)

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: 1954-6018/35

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