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Margate Pier

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A watercolour showing a view of Margate Pier. After an etching by Amelia Noel. A carriage, drawn by two horses, is shown on a road in the foreground. The road is on the edge of a chalk cliff, which curves round to the right. A pier is shown to the right.
Inscribed below: Margate Pier.
Amelia Noel was a drawing mistress to the daughters of George III. Noel made a series of topographical etchings in the late 1790's, presenting a set to Princess Sophia's elder sister, Princess Elizabeth.
Descriptive Medium: 'Pen and ink over watercolour', 'pen and ink, watercolour'
Additional Makers: After Noel, Amelia (fl.1795-1804) (etcher)