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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CHARLES DIXON (1872-1934) KHEDIVIAL MAIL LINE. 1922. 40 x 25 inches. Condition B+: expert overpainting in margins; creases, restoration and repaired tears in image. The Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Co., was formed in 1898, bringing together disparate ships and ports run by the Egyptian government. It operated passenger and cargo service between Alexandria, Constantinople and Syrian ports and between Suez and Red Sea ports. Here, the Mosque of St. Sophia-Constantinople and the Ras-el-tin Palace Alexandria are both depicted in insets. The single stack Famaka, pictured at top, was built in 1922 and served the company until 1927 when she was chartered to another company and renamed. A well regarded painter of maritime scenes, Dixon primarily worked in watercolors, but also painted in oil. "Dixon exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy, with 52 works recorded from 1880-1920, as well as exhibits at the New Watercolour Society. In 1900 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours." (www.artnet.com).
