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Show Florence '.Nightingale's Statue. "The Lady With the Lamp," statue of Florence Nightingale, has been unveiled un-veiled without ceremonial, in Waterloo Water-loo place, London. The statue stands-high stands-high on a red and gray granite pedestal, pedes-tal, and makes a notable and an appropriate ap-propriate addition to Waterloo place. By its side, fully harmonizing with it in general outline, Is that of Sidney Herbert. The effective background for both is the Crimean memorial. The sculptor portrayed bis subject in a sympathetic pose, standing In the voluminous vo-luminous 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 public, statue of a woman In London otb.r than those of roval ladies. |