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After Murillo

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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

A boy sits on the ground against an overgrown wall, while looking down at an unidentified object that he is holding. Next to him is a water jug. The title is possibly a reference to a painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, "The Young Beggar," also known as "The Lice-Ridden Boy."

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