Florence Nightingale. Mezzotint by C.A. Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.

  • Butterworth, J., active 1839-1854.
Date:
30 June 1855
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Crimean War: Florence Nightingale with her candle on the night round at Scutari hospital

Publication/Creation

London (22 Ludgate Hill) : Lloyd Brothers & Co., 30 June 1855.

Physical description

1 print : mezzotint, with aquatint ; platemark 41.8 x 36.5 cm

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Florence Nightingale an angel of mercy. Scutari hospital 1855. "When all the medical officers have retired for the night, and silence and darkness have settled down upon thosse miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds" letter from Scutari, in the Times, Febry. 1855. Butterworth. Tomkins.

Edition

[State issued uncoloured].

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2151.8
Annette Kerckhoff, Heilende Frauen, München: E. Sandmann, 2010, p. 81

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Wellcome Collection 9975i

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