Chain Pier

My father bought a picture recently, in a massively ornate gilded frame.  On taking it out to reframe it in something more sedate he found this picture underneath:

He was planning to just bin it, but I thankfully noticed and managed to claim it for my own.

Oddly, it is massively similar to the picture on My Brighton and Hove of the Chain Pier.

Good Find.

Comments

[Matt]

That's a very cool find. From my distinctly unpracticed I it looks like a near dead on copy.... Is it actually drawn?

I had an old print of the West Pier in Brighton, but somehow it got lost in the move to Chile. I hope I can find it at some point. I would love to frame it and hang it in the house.

[Joh]

It is dead on the same (right down to placement of birds) - my father thinks it may have been the sketch used to then create the watercolour, but I have not yet taken it out of its frame to check for sure if it is actually drawn.

I almost don't want to know! (Worry that it is probably just a print)

Shame you lost your print of the west pier - do you want me to source you another? :)

[Matt]

No worries. I'm sure it will turn up some point soon. I have yet to go through some of the boxes that were shipped from England, so I have my hopes that it is on of them.