Yet the precise outline of the lantern light used to care for the wounded and dying soldiers was never specified. The lamp on the note is a genie-style lamp that holds a candle, but Nightingale used the more elaborate and distinctive folded Turkish ‘fanoos' lamp.ĭavid Green, the Florence Nightingale Museum director, said: "There were journalists sent over in the Crimean War but no photographers, so when they described the woman walking around the ward,ĭuring the Crimean War, The Times reported on Nightingale walking around the beds of wounded men throughout the night, holding a lamp aloft before her.
Her standing portrait on the reverse of the £10 note is accompanied with a background scene from the Scutari hospital where she served in Turkey.Īt the centre of the picture, rays of light shine from the lamp Nightingale holds while she and other nurses tend to patients. At their peak in 1990 there were almost 600 Nightingale, dubbed ‘The Lady with the Lamp' during the Crimean War, was featured on a commemorative banknote in circulation between 19. The £10 note which was in circulation for nearly 20 years featured Florence Nightingale holding the wrong lamp. Here's an article about a problem with Florence Nightingale's lampįound via News & Notes Volume V, Number 38, Mafrom the Society of Paper Money Collectors. It's hard to get historical scenes right, and sometime inaccurate depictions find their way onto coins and banknotes.
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