A watercolour showing a view from a hotel in Bangor, Wales. Trees are shown across the edge of a lawn, with further trees shown behind. A tower is shown poking up through the tree-tops to the left and hills are shown in the background. The sea is shown to the left. Inscribed lower right: View from the Hotel at Bangor Oct:14 - 1852 - VR. Verso: a watercolour showing a view of the Menai Straits from the railroad. The sea is shown in the foreground, with the Welsh coast and the Menai Straits shown behind. Inscribed lower right: Menai Straits from the railroad Oct: 14 - 1852 Queen Victoria travelled by train to North Wales on 13 October 1852, staying overnight at a hotel in Bangor before travelling back to Windsor Castle the next day.