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The Little Bull Fight, "Bravo Toro!"

Watercolour
late 19th century (made)
Artist/Maker

The little Bull Fight: "Bravo Toro!", by Arthur Melville

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleThe Little Bull Fight, "Bravo Toro!" (popular title)
Materials and techniques
watercolour
Brief description
The little Bull Fight: "Bravo Toro!", by Arthur Melville
Dimensions
  • Height: 560mm
  • Width: 788mm
Marks and inscriptions
(Signed)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Arthur Melville
Object history
Reproduced facing p. 10 of Modern Water-Colour, 1917, by Romily Fedden; and on Plate XIII of the first annual volume of the Old Water Colour Society's Club, 1924.

No. 91 in the catalogue of the exhibition of Arthur Melville's work at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour 1906. Exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society in 1889.

Date of acquisition: 20 February 1906.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Baker, Christopher, David Howarth, Paul Stirton and Claudia Heide, The Discovery of Spain: British Artists and Collectors, Goya to Picasso, Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2009.
  • Billcliffe, Roger, McConkey, Kenneth and O'Neill, Mark, Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys, Glasgow, Glasgow Museums Publishing, 2009
Collection
Accession number
D.143-1906

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Record createdMay 15, 2008
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