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Edward Hope, Mrs. Farquhar, Miss Farquhar, Florence
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Ronald Ruthven Leslie-MelvillePhotographer · 1835–1906
All works by this person →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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- 1860s
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- Scottish
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 2dacc139-4e2d-4fb7-9674-3602984ef8a1
A Caucasian woman wearing a ruff collar typical of the Elizabethan era kneels before an execution block as if in prayer, while two other women stand next to her, possibly a tableau. A Caucasian man, holding an axe by its head, also stands near the women.
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