Arthur Melville, A.R.S.A., R.S.W., A.R.S.
The Fête of the Dosseh
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Arthur Melville, A.R.S.A., R.S.W., A.R.S.
1858-1904
The Fête of the Dosseh
signed Arthur Melville and inscribed 'The Fête of the Dosseh'/ Cairo (lower left)
watercolour on paper
unframed: 66 by 99cm.; 26 by 39in.
framed: 98 by 131cm.; 38½ by 51½in.
Executed in 1881.
Sir James Bell, Lord Provost of Glasgow
Private Collection
Private Collection
London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1889, no. 153
Munich, Glaspalast, International Exhibition, 1891, no. 990, as 'Die Fest von Dosseh'
London, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Exhibition of Collected works of Arthur Melville, 1906, no. 59
Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Exhibition of the Works of Arthur Melville, 1907, no. 41
Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, Arthur Melville Adventures in Colour, 2015, no. 14
Munich, Glaspalast, International Exhibition, 1891, no. 990, as 'Die Fest von Dosseh'
London, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Exhibition of Collected works of Arthur Melville, 1906, no. 59
Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Exhibition of the Works of Arthur Melville, 1907, no. 41
Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, Arthur Melville Adventures in Colour, 2015, no. 14
‘The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours’, The Times, 30 April 1889, p. 8
Anon, ‘The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours’, The Magazine of Art, 1889, p. 294
‘The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours’, Glasgow Herald, 29 April 1889, p. 9
‘The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours’, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 6 May 1889, p. 5
Robert Walker, ‘Private Picture Collections in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, Collection of Sir James Bell Bart, Lord Provost of Glasgow’, The Magazine of Art, 1896, pp. 387-8
‘Art Exhibitions’, The Times, 15 January 1906, p. 15
Agnes A. Mackay, Arthur Melville Scottish Impressionist, 1951, p. 75, no. 116
Ian Gale, Arthur Melville, Edinburgh, 1996, p. 65
Kenneth McConkey and Charlotte Topsfield, Arthur Melville Adventures in Colour, exh.cat., Edinburgh, 2015, pp. 16, 94
Ronald Pickvance and Kenneth McConkey, ‘Arthur Melville and the Macaulay Stevensons, A Friendship Rediscovered’, British Art Journal, vol XVI, no 3, 2016, p. 51
Anon, ‘The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours’, The Magazine of Art, 1889, p. 294
‘The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours’, Glasgow Herald, 29 April 1889, p. 9
‘The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours’, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 6 May 1889, p. 5
Robert Walker, ‘Private Picture Collections in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, Collection of Sir James Bell Bart, Lord Provost of Glasgow’, The Magazine of Art, 1896, pp. 387-8
‘Art Exhibitions’, The Times, 15 January 1906, p. 15
Agnes A. Mackay, Arthur Melville Scottish Impressionist, 1951, p. 75, no. 116
Ian Gale, Arthur Melville, Edinburgh, 1996, p. 65
Kenneth McConkey and Charlotte Topsfield, Arthur Melville Adventures in Colour, exh.cat., Edinburgh, 2015, pp. 16, 94
Ronald Pickvance and Kenneth McConkey, ‘Arthur Melville and the Macaulay Stevensons, A Friendship Rediscovered’, British Art Journal, vol XVI, no 3, 2016, p. 51