While Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings, / While quacks of State must each produce his plan, / And even children lisp the Rights of Man; / Amid this mighty fuss let me mention, / The Rights of Woman merit some attention. - ROBERT BURNS

Tuesday, March 26, 2013


"Florence Nightingale Receiving the Wounded at Scutari"
Jerry Barrett 1824-1906

This is the painting which made the artist famous. It's believed that, during the Crimean War, he travelled round the area making sketches just as newspaper photographers do today.

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