Cronk Urleigh

'Cronk Urleigh was once a place of great importance, having been the scene of the out of door Parliament. Charles planted it thickly with trees, drained the fields and cleared the hedges; levelled the inequalities of the surface of the rough little meadows, and soon the little desert began to blossom as the rose. Years passed away before the Cronk became the lovely spot which attracted the admiration of all that passed by.' (Sarah Jametta Crigan, Memoir of Major Charles Crigan, 1864)

The sketch is one of a set of four sepia drawings of local scenery, by Sir Henry Dryden, 1853. Cronk Urleigh. Isle of Man, monogram H.D July 1853.