M0011539: Portrait of Edith Cavell (1865-1915)

Date:
1950
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/102/63
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Credit

M0011539: Portrait of Edith Cavell (1865-1915). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Edith Cavell, 1865-1915, photograph, Daily Mirror.

Description

Photograph published in the the Daily Mirror, 12 October 1915 of Edith Cavell (1865-1915) British nurse, sitting with two dogs. There is a quote beneath the photograph: "I have seen death so often that it is not strange or painful to me. I am glad to die for my Country." Brussels, October 12th 1915.

Publication/Creation

1950

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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