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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 ...
Date Created/Published: London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. Summary: Florence Nightingale holding lamp in front of man. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-00466 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-4239 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-75815 (b&w film copy neg.)
Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
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
Photos thought to be among the last taken of Florence Nightingale are among a number of items related to the famed English nurse going up for auction in London.
High resolution period lithograph of the hospital operated by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. Restored version of File:Hospital at Scutari.jpg. Articles this image appears in Florence Nightingale, Selimiye Barracks Creator Day & Son. Support as nominator — Jake Wartenberg 00:43, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Jerry Barrett in 1860. Jerry Barrett (1824–21 January 1906) was an English painter of the Victorian era.His most notable work was the Crimean War depiction The Mission of Mercy: Nightingale receiving the wounded at Scutari (1858) which is in the National Portrait Gallery (London), paired with Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers.
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