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Details
- Other Titles
- Street Scene
Kurrachee, India
Kurrachan - Date
- circa 1882
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour over pencil underdrawing
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 49.0 cm image/sheet; 54.2 x 72.0 x 2.3 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., "Arthur Melville./...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1952
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8694
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Arthur Melville
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
The exhibition of the collected works of Arthur Melville RWS, ARSA, New Society of Painters in Water-Colours, London, Jan 1906–Feb 1906
Purchases and acquisitions for 1952, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Mar 1953–24 May 1953
Scottish paintings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Nov 1981–06 Dec 1981
Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Aug 1993–24 Oct 1993
Victorian watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 2017–03 Dec 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Sydney, 1993, p 10.
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Agnes Ethel Mackay, Arthur Melville, Scottish Impressionist (1855–1904), Leigh-on-Sea, 1951, p 136, no 173. As 'Kurrachee street scene, a.' Lent by J Mackinlay, Esq to R.I. 1906 (90).
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 138–39, col illus pp 136–37 (detail), 139.
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The exhibition of the collected works of Arthur Melville RWS, ARSA, London, 1906, p 23, no 90. As 'A Kurrachee Street Scene', signed "Arthur Melville, Kurrachee" A water colour. Lent by James MacKinlay, Esq.
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Scottish paintings in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1981.
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Arthur Melville, adventures in colour, Edinburgh, 2015, p 50.
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Trustees' minutes 1952, 11 Jun 1952, p 3452.
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Provenance
Source unknown, Purchased by the AGNSW in London in 1952
Probably G J Mackinlay, by 1906