Mary Beaton & Mary Seaton

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Mary Beaton & Mary Seaton

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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
about 1860–1864
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
Scottish
Department
Photographs
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Two Caucasian women pose next to a framed image of a woman dressed in an Elizabethan-era costume. One of the women is sitting on a platform and facing away from the camera, while the other leans on the pedestal upon which the image was placed.

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