Miss Cavell

Category

Library Item

Item no

33038

Title

Miss Cavell

Description

Text accompanying the image reads,

"Edith Cavell, born 4 December 1865 at Swardeston, Norfolk; in charge of the Berendael Medial Institute, Brussels, May-August 1915; sentence by German court-martial at Brussels, 11 October 1915, for having concealed English and French soldiers, and helped them and young Belgians to escape across the frontier, was shot by order of the Military Governor, in the prison of St. Gilles, within a few hours."

Artist / maker

Raemaekers, Louis

Date

1916

Size

35.0 x 25.3 cm

Type

Chromolithograph

Location

Art and Design Library

Copyright

Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.