Llewellynn Jewitt was an artist and antiquarian in Derby, near Florence Nightingale's home at Lea Hurst. He was interested in Nightingale and kept a scrapbook of material relating to her life. The scrapbook is preserved today in the Derby Local Studies Library.
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Leaflet announcing the sailing of "The Celebrated Clipper Ship Florence Nightingale."
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Drawing labeled "Scutari Nov/54." Presumably by Jewitt?
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A grocer uses a portrait and biography of Nightingale to promote his wares.
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In 1855, Jewitt published a pamphlet on Florence Nightingale's home Lea Hurst. "F.S.A." stands for Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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Panoramas and dioramas were a popular art form in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Large painted canvasses depicted magnificent scenes of battles, disasters, and historical events. Sometimes the pictures were presented in a 360 degree setting. Other times the cavasses were scrolled along to represent travel through a distant landscape. Moving elements and lighting effects added excitement, a narrator recounted the story of the event, and a band played along. ("A Splendid Band in Attendance" reads one broadside below.) People paid a fee to enter the shows, which often travelled from town to town; it was like watching documentary movies, back before movies were invented.
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In 1855, Stanley Herbert and the Duke of Cambridge started the Nightingale Fund to raise money to train nurses. The Jewitt scrapbook has flyers, reciepts, and lists of contributors.
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Photos by Robert J. Griffiths
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