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Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville
Not a Bad Day's Work
[A Day's Deerstalking]
1860s
Medium albumen print
19.50 x 26.30 cm
National Galleries of Scotland
Purchased 1980, Acc. No. PGP 234.40
LL/63016
Curatorian description (Accessed: 26 November 2015)
This is one of a series of six photographs called 'A Day's Deerstalking', and shows Melville himself to the right with his friend Edward Ross. Ross was a great shot and skilled at drawing animals. His father, Horatio Ross, was a well-known amateur photographer and it is possible that he taught Melville to use a camera. The two friends have returned from deerstalking on a Highland estate and project an air of satisfaction after the successful hunt.
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