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Elizabeth Fry at Newgate Prison in 1813 Collection: NRM - Pictorial Collection (Railway) Object Name: carriage print Maker: Mortelmans, Edward; British Railways, London Midland Region Place Made: England, United Kingdom Date Made: 1955 Materials: paper Measurements: overall: 260 mm x 510 mm |
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Description: Carriage print. Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison in 1813. Text: "Elizabeth Fry at Newgate Pprison in 1813. She was moved so much by the sad scenes of horror that she saw there that she devoted the rest of her life to the improvement of conditions in our prisons" By Edward Mortelmans. c.1955. British Railways (London Midland Region) History Series. |
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| British Railways, London Midland Region 1948-1992, railway company regional authority, British | |
| Mortelmans, Edward b. 1915, active 1940s-1980s, artist; poster artist; illustrator, British | |
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