Douglas Bay; Castle Mona & Mountains in background Tynwald

The present system of landing passengers by small boats upon the Island...the avaricious manner in which it is conducted by the boatmen is highly disgraceful to themselves and annoying to strangers...they generally succeed in levying the most exorbitant contributions.' (William Bennet, Sketches of the Isle of Man, 1829, M 02608)

This is probably the work of Samuel Walters of Liverpool, who made several pictures of Manx Vessels from 1830 when he painted the first Mona Isle. See Douglas Bay; C. Mona & Mountains in background Tynwald (built 1846) to left; Benny chree (1845) right rowing fishing boat foreground