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Arthur Melville ARSA RSW, Sketch for ‘Christmas Eve: '"And there was no room for them in the Inn"', 1903
Arthur Melville ARSA RSW, Sketch for ‘Christmas Eve: '"And there was no room for them in the Inn"', 1903
Arthur Melville ARSA RSW, Sketch for ‘Christmas Eve: '"And there was no room for them in the Inn"', 1903

Arthur Melville ARSA RSW 1855-1904

Sketch for ‘Christmas Eve: '"And there was no room for them in the Inn"', 1903
inscribed on canvas verso 'Sketch for for "There was no room at the Inn" / by Arthur Melville RWS ARSA / GAM'
oil on canvas
20 ½ x 31 inches (52 x 79 cm)

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Provenance

Private collection, London
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