Florence Nightingale Images Free Download [REPACK]
Maria Houchins
This is the story of a quest, of a search that took me and my assistant Rebecca to dozens of different places and archives, both on location and online. Like every quest it had its disappointments and moments of elation, its periods of doubt and its times of excitement. All the questions have not been answered yet and some may never be. But we do know a little more about those images and why they became so popular.
It is high time to examine the photographic portraits we have of Florence Nightingale and the little we know about the circumstances in which they were taken. There are altogether eight photographs of the Lady with the Lamp but only seven from the three sittings out of which the main three iconic images of Florence come from. The earliest photograph, showing a very young Florence reading a book was taken in Germany around 1852 and later published as a carte-de-visite by Julius Cornelius Schaarwächter from Berlin 9[You can see this image on the Wellcome collection website: =ebwyy774 Schaarwächter, being born in 1847 cannot be the author of the image as he was only five when it was taken. He is just a later distributor, as a lot of the people who will be mentioned here. The name of the artist responsible for this early portrait unfortunately remains a mystery.
The remaining seven images have been successively attributed to Albert Edward Coe, Richard Keene of Derby, Goodman, also of Derby, another Goodman, without mention of his whereabouts, the London Stereoscopic Company, Henry Hering, William Edward Kilburn, and Henry Lenthall, all four from London. Depending on the collections where they are now housed the dates they are supposed to have been made at span over eight years, from 1854 to 1862.
There is another question about the Kilburn images that needs to be answered. Even though most of the copies of the seated portraits of Florence bear the name of Kilburn or of his successor, Henry Lenthall, as well as the address of their studio, 222, Regent Street, how can we be sure Kilburn is the actual taker of the photographs ? After all, we saw with Goodman that he is never credited as the real author of his two Nightingale portraits and that names printed on cartes-de-visite can be misleading. The answer is simple: props.
Florence Nightingale's image appeared on the reverse of 10 Series D banknotes issued by the Bank of England from 1975 until 1994. As well as a standing portrait, she was depicted on the notes in a field hospital, holding her lamp.[141] Nightingale's note was in circulation alongside the images of Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Michael Faraday, Sir Christopher Wren, the Duke of Wellington and George Stephenson, and prior to 2002, other than the female monarchs, she was the only woman whose image had ever adorned British paper currency.[7]
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