Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1915 — Florence Nightingale’s Statue. [ARTICLE]

Florence Nightingale’s Statue.

"The Lady With the Lamp,” statue of Florence Nightingale, has been unveiled without ceremonial, in Waterloo place. London. The statue stands high on a red and gray granite pedestal, and makes a notable and an appropriate addition to Waterloo place. By Its side, fully harmonising with tt in general outline, is that of Sidney Herbert. The effectlTe background for both is the Crimean memorial. The sculptor portrayed his subject in a sympathetic pose, standing in the voluminous skirt of the early Victorian period, with the lamp borne in the right hand. This statue of "The Lady With the Lamp” is the first publle statue of a woman in London othed tha" those of royal ladies.