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Abyssinia. Thieves in Stocks at Senafe.
Creator
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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1867–1868
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- Scottish
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Eight native men are sitting on the ground and are placed barefoot in stocks. Behind them are two tents that appear to be part of a larger encampment.
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