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It depicts Florence Nightingale at Scutari Hospital during the Crimean War. The painting is a romanticised three-quarter-length portrait of Nightingale, depicted as a young woman swathed in a white shawl, carrying an oil lamp as she looks down on a wounded soldier, wearing his redcoat draped over his shoulders with its arms around his neck ...
Her 1891 painting Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854), of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, has been frequently reproduced, and is generally referred to as The Lady with the Lamp. The Lady with the Lamp ; a popular lithographic reproduction of her best-known painting
Renkioi was designated a civilian hospital, under the War Office but independent of the Army Medical Department, and hence outside the management of Florence Nightingale. It had a nursing staff selected by Parkes and Sir James Clark , including as a volunteer Parkes's sister; [ 10 ] while other staff included Dr John Kirk, later of Zanzibar fame.
A stained glass window of Nightingale, on display at the museum. In 1860, four years after her famous involvement in the Crimean War, Nightingale founded the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital and the museum is located on this site. [2] The new museum is designed around three pavilions that tell her story. [3]
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Pashalik of Scutari, a semi-independent Albanian state during Ottoman rule; Lake Skadar, on the border of Albania and Montenegro, also known as Lake Scutari; Üsküdar (formerly Scutari), a municipality of Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian side of the city Scutari Barracks, a former hospital in Üsküdar where Florence Nightingale worked
Selimiye Barracks (Turkish: Selimiye Kışlası), also known as Scutari Barracks, is a Turkish Army barracks located in Selimiye in the Üsküdar district on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey. It was originally built in 1800 by Sultan Selim III for the soldiers of the newly established Nizam-ı Cedid (literally "New Order") within the ...
The First Scutari-Ottoman War (Albanian: Lufta e Parë Shkodrane-Osmane) was a conflict between Kara Mahmud Pasha, the Pasha of the de facto independent Pashalik of Scutari, and the Ottoman Empire. The war was caused by the expansionist policies of Kara Mahmud, which threatened the central government of the Ottoman Empire.