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Maker(s):Bellows, George Wesley
Culture:American (1882-1925)
Title:Murder of Edith Cavell, from the War Series
Date Made:1918
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph
Measurements:Sheet: 24 3/8 in x 30 1/8 in; 61.9 cm x 76.5 cm; Image: 19 in x 24 5/8 in; 48.3 cm x 62.5 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1969.49
Credit Line:Gift of Charles Hill Morgan
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the Red Cross in German-ocuupied Belgium, dressed in white, is descending a staircase to her demise. She was arrested (August 1915) for assisting in the escape of Allied prisoners and executed by a firing squad in Ocober 1915.

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