DOI Heft:
No. 37 (April, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Knox, Archibald: The Isle of Man as a sketching ground
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0160
The Isle of Man as a Sketching Ground.
or glistening beneath the sun, tenderest of blues in come into them, they offer little inducement to the
the evening, or deep turquoise under the influence painter to paint them. English painters have given
of a breeze ; it runs in streaks into the land touching little attention to possible subjects for their art in
the greens and pinks of spring, and insinuates itself Man. Manx life and Manx landscape are of too
into the breaches in the cornfields. It comes into the quiet and unexciting a kind to attract when greater
gardens of the fishermen's cottages ; it winds among choices present themselves. Of course we have
great stretches of golden
wrack; and its mists j
float on to the land where |f j '
the coast is depressed, J» j
offering new forms of Wi\ i v
cloud and new fancies of '
interesting^ in itself, and j jdj^^Br^^^^^^^
situated, and when there " ■ _
is any shipping in its bay j ,y • -^^jPl^^ll I
il is one of the most com- * '\f*f '* I, ' "'/.'( sftljH^-'T"-^" \
pletely satisfactory parts •'•.< jBHfflf'••• ' \'f''f if J !*• I
of the island. Balla Salla ; 'Mfe. v;
is a village also close to rgjjHfc'
Castletown, and inland,
but which, nevertheless,
presents many beautiful
aspects in conjunction /|
with the sea. Its river ■'. % :WM&'M'
and trees are in a small IwflmSm
way very beautiful; and jjk
the tower of the Abbey of ' mffl- wfflUBRt
Rushen still retains the mm'- 'MBrmBH
great patch of lichen, the Mm" ' WmSm\
effect of which Mr.Words- .^Pp.: j^^M
worth, when he saw it —aaaBiS^
sixty years ago, declared
to be that of perpetual \
sunset. These places THE nave, st. German's church, peel from a pencil sketch by a. knox
are all on the flat country.
Though the Island is mostly hilly, the villages are lately been " discovered," but we have had our own
not among the hills. The little valleys or glens which painters and wise men who have always been
abound are thinly peopled, and their beauty lies abreast of the good things in English life, and
chiefly in the few settlements and hamlets that are above the bad. The great booming of Manx stock
found in them. The hills above them are very bare might reasonably induce you to think that Man
and tame of form, but the valleys are full of the was not so very nice a place after all. We have
airy branches of the ash and black alder. The two had, as it were, a great advertisement painted upon
valleys of Baldwin, near Douglas, and of Cornaa, us during the past few years ; but we are in rather
about ten miles north of that town, are the biggest, a worse position than other things so defaced. The
the least artificial, and the best artistically. But all soap has not yet been advertised that will wash the
the valleys are narrow, and the views limited; and advertisement off.
except when the sky is broken and gleams of sun Archibald Knox.
146
or glistening beneath the sun, tenderest of blues in come into them, they offer little inducement to the
the evening, or deep turquoise under the influence painter to paint them. English painters have given
of a breeze ; it runs in streaks into the land touching little attention to possible subjects for their art in
the greens and pinks of spring, and insinuates itself Man. Manx life and Manx landscape are of too
into the breaches in the cornfields. It comes into the quiet and unexciting a kind to attract when greater
gardens of the fishermen's cottages ; it winds among choices present themselves. Of course we have
great stretches of golden
wrack; and its mists j
float on to the land where |f j '
the coast is depressed, J» j
offering new forms of Wi\ i v
cloud and new fancies of '
interesting^ in itself, and j jdj^^Br^^^^^^^
situated, and when there " ■ _
is any shipping in its bay j ,y • -^^jPl^^ll I
il is one of the most com- * '\f*f '* I, ' "'/.'( sftljH^-'T"-^" \
pletely satisfactory parts •'•.< jBHfflf'••• ' \'f''f if J !*• I
of the island. Balla Salla ; 'Mfe. v;
is a village also close to rgjjHfc'
Castletown, and inland,
but which, nevertheless,
presents many beautiful
aspects in conjunction /|
with the sea. Its river ■'. % :WM&'M'
and trees are in a small IwflmSm
way very beautiful; and jjk
the tower of the Abbey of ' mffl- wfflUBRt
Rushen still retains the mm'- 'MBrmBH
great patch of lichen, the Mm" ' WmSm\
effect of which Mr.Words- .^Pp.: j^^M
worth, when he saw it —aaaBiS^
sixty years ago, declared
to be that of perpetual \
sunset. These places THE nave, st. German's church, peel from a pencil sketch by a. knox
are all on the flat country.
Though the Island is mostly hilly, the villages are lately been " discovered," but we have had our own
not among the hills. The little valleys or glens which painters and wise men who have always been
abound are thinly peopled, and their beauty lies abreast of the good things in English life, and
chiefly in the few settlements and hamlets that are above the bad. The great booming of Manx stock
found in them. The hills above them are very bare might reasonably induce you to think that Man
and tame of form, but the valleys are full of the was not so very nice a place after all. We have
airy branches of the ash and black alder. The two had, as it were, a great advertisement painted upon
valleys of Baldwin, near Douglas, and of Cornaa, us during the past few years ; but we are in rather
about ten miles north of that town, are the biggest, a worse position than other things so defaced. The
the least artificial, and the best artistically. But all soap has not yet been advertised that will wash the
the valleys are narrow, and the views limited; and advertisement off.
except when the sky is broken and gleams of sun Archibald Knox.
146