Margate Pier

A watercolour showing a view of Margate Pier. After an etching by Amelia Noel. Grass is shown along the coast in the lower foreground, with the pier shown behind. Building are shown on the shore to the left and boats are shown on the water.

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', 'watercolour, pen and ink'

Additional Makers: After Noel, Amelia (fl.1795-1804) (etcher)