Volume 1

The life of Florence Nightingale. Vol. II (1862-1910) / Sir Edward Cook.

  • Cook, Sir Edward Tyas, 1857-1919.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The life of Florence Nightingale. Vol. II (1862-1910) / Sir Edward Cook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Miss Nightingale never wore ear-rings. If the portrait be indeed of her, and by a practised artist, it can hardly have been made from the life. (6) c. 1845. Pencil sketch by Miss Hilary Bonham Carter. In the possession of Miss B. A. Clough. Reproduced in Vol. I. p. 38. (7) c. 1850. Full-length, standing beside a pedestal, on which stands an owl. Engraved by F. Holl from a pencil drawing by Parthenope Nightingale (Lady Verney). Reproduced in the Illus- trated Times, February 2, 1856, and as frontispiece to the Victoria Miniature Almanack and Fashionable Remembrancer for 1857. (8) c. 1852. Large pencil head, copied about 1880 by J. R. Parsons from a drawing by Lady Eastlake. The original was in bad condition and is believed to have been destroyed. The copy is at Lea Hurst. (9) c. 1852. Photograph, three-quarter face, almost profile ; three-quarter length, seated, reading. A striped scarf. Taken in Germany. At Claydon. (10) 1854. Photograph, seated, looking down, by Kilburn, then 222 Regent Street. Taken during Miss Nightingale's time at Harley Street. There were two positions as mentioned in the letter of Mrs. Sutherland noticed under No. 15, looking down in one, in the other the eyes raised. These are the photographs which some of Miss Nightingale's family considered the best. (11) 1854. A sketch ; seated, reading a book ; white flower in her hair ; red cross on her neck. H. M. B. C. del. [Miss Hilary Bonham Carter, whose initials, however, were J. H. B. C] Pub- lished November 28, 1854, by P. and D. Colnaghi: Colnaghi's Authentic Series. There was also published an uncoloured print of the same drawing, which in turn was adapted in various forms—as in a print published by W. Bemrose & Sons, lettered Miss Florence Nightingale, the Good Samaritan of Derbyshire, reading the accounts of the dreadful sufferings of our brave wounded soldiers, etc., etc. (12) 1855. Miss Florence Nightingale and Mr. Bracebridge on Cathcart's Hill, May 8, 1855. Lithographed by Day, and published. This drawing was made up by Lady Verney and Lady Anne Blunt from a slight sketch by Mrs. Bracebridge. Many other prints, still further removed from life, were published—such as : Florence Nightingale in the Military Hospital at Scutari (a coloured print published, March 16, 1855, by Read & Co., 10 Johnson's Court, Fleet Street) ; Miss Florence Nightingale, the Soldiers' Friend (drawn by Elston, published May 1, 1856, by Ellis, 51 Jewin Street, City) ; and The Great Military Hospital at Scutari (published, with a sentimental legend, Feb. 24, 1855, by Stannard & Dixon, 7 Poland Street). (13) 1856. Oil picture of Miss Nightingale receiving the wounded at Scutari, by Jerry Barratt. Engraved as Florence Nightingale at Scutari, A Mission of Mercy, by S. Bellin. The picture is in the possession of Sir Percy Bates, Bart. (14) 1856. Photograph, three-quarter length, three-quarter