The Metropole Hotel from the West Pier
From the Brighton Aquatints suite. Hand coloured edition of 55.
Notes by the artist: The Metropole Hotel from the West Pier.
The Metropole and the Grand are two enormous hotels that change the whole nature of the part of Brighton front between the two piers. But it is only a change from jollity to frivolity. Old prints hung in the Pavilion show the Regency houses that were swept away to make room for these giants. The Metropole (which occupies the centre place in this aquatint, with the Grand disappearing out of the picture on the right) is dark, lurid red, with fanciful porches, balconies, roofs and chimneys - with a good del of cast iron in its construction. To see it best, go along the pier and and look back across the strip to the sea. From here on the right day big waves will be washing away from you towards the Metropole as if they intend to swamp it. A heavy shower may just be over, and dark clouds may hang behind, to provide a sombre backcloth for this extraordinary inanimate stage turn.
Notes by the artist: The Metropole Hotel from the West Pier.
The Metropole and the Grand are two enormous hotels that change the whole nature of the part of Brighton front between the two piers. But it is only a change from jollity to frivolity. Old prints hung in the Pavilion show the Regency houses that were swept away to make room for these giants. The Metropole (which occupies the centre place in this aquatint, with the Grand disappearing out of the picture on the right) is dark, lurid red, with fanciful porches, balconies, roofs and chimneys - with a good del of cast iron in its construction. To see it best, go along the pier and and look back across the strip to the sea. From here on the right day big waves will be washing away from you towards the Metropole as if they intend to swamp it. A heavy shower may just be over, and dark clouds may hang behind, to provide a sombre backcloth for this extraordinary inanimate stage turn.
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From the Brighton Aquatints suite. Hand coloured edition of 55.
Notes by the artist: The Metropole Hotel from the West Pier.
The Metropole and the Grand are two enormous hotels that change the whole nature of the part of Brighton front between the two piers. But it is only a change from jollity to frivolity. Old prints hung in the Pavilion show the Regency houses that were swept away to make room for these giants. The Metropole (which occupies the centre place in this aquatint, with the Grand disappearing out of the picture on the right) is dark, lurid red, with fanciful porches, balconies, roofs and chimneys - with a good del of cast iron in its construction. To see it best, go along the pier and and look back across the strip to the sea. From here on the right day big waves will be washing away from you towards the Metropole as if they intend to swamp it. A heavy shower may just be over, and dark clouds may hang behind, to provide a sombre backcloth for this extraordinary inanimate stage turn.
Notes by the artist: The Metropole Hotel from the West Pier.
The Metropole and the Grand are two enormous hotels that change the whole nature of the part of Brighton front between the two piers. But it is only a change from jollity to frivolity. Old prints hung in the Pavilion show the Regency houses that were swept away to make room for these giants. The Metropole (which occupies the centre place in this aquatint, with the Grand disappearing out of the picture on the right) is dark, lurid red, with fanciful porches, balconies, roofs and chimneys - with a good del of cast iron in its construction. To see it best, go along the pier and and look back across the strip to the sea. From here on the right day big waves will be washing away from you towards the Metropole as if they intend to swamp it. A heavy shower may just be over, and dark clouds may hang behind, to provide a sombre backcloth for this extraordinary inanimate stage turn.
