The Black Pool

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The Black Pool

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Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville

Photographer · 1835–1906

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Ronald Leslie Melville, the eleventh Earl of Leven and Melville, was an aristocratic amateur photographer and member of the Amateur Photographic Association, to which he was elected in 1866. Well-known in London as head of an Anglo-American banking house and director of the Bank of England, he pursued photography simply as a pleasurable pastime. He produced theatrical *tableaux vivant* and genre p

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Date: 1860s
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: Scottish
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: 2eef412f-e773-4daf-b546-6ee71d15f179

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View of a river lined with large rocks and tall trees on either side, partially obscured by some shrubberies and bare branches in the foreground.

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