The sisters of Hotel-Dieu pictured with their bed patients.
With the rise of the Black Plague in 1348, the sisters of Hotel-Dieu refused to leave their patients as many professionally trained doctors and nurses were abandoning their patients to flee the plague.
Les Edifices Hospitallers, C. Tollet, 1892; current edition by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Midwifery
The Lady with the Lamp
Florence Nightingale (pictured), an English social reformer and women healer
The Lady with the Lamp, also known as the Nightingale nurse, painted the perception of the "ideal lady," the one that exercised the obedience of a woman and the selflessness of a mother
The Shrimp Girl
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
