Print: To the Dear Love of Comrades: in Memory of Flora Murray

A print featuring a woman in a red dress seated on the left with paper in her hand against a purple/blue background and a pink border. To her right are images of buildings, a leaf, medals, and a pamphlet. At the bottom is a blue border with the words, "Flora Murray" in cursive. On the right side of the image are two silhouettes of women. On their left is poem "Time takes them home that we loved, fair names and famous, To the soft long sleep, to the broad sweet bosom of death; But the flower of their souls he shall not take away to shame us, Nor the lips lack song for ever that now lack breath. For with us shall the music and perfume that die not dwell, Though the dead to our dead bid welcome, and we farewell. Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1874. In Flora Murray, 1920, p. 212. Below the poem are silhouette images of the images on the reverse. At the bottom is the reverse image of "Flora Murray" in cursive.

Framed digital pigment fine art print on paper by Glasgow-based artist Fiona Dean, titled ‘To the Dear Love of Comrades: in Memory of Flora Murray’. The print was commissioned by GWL for 21 Revolutions, and is available as a limited edition print in our shop.

Fiona Dean’s print celebrates the life and work of Flora Murray, a medical doctor and an active and prominent member of the WSPU.

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Date: 2012

Catalogue record: GWL-2015-49-9

Type of object: ,

Material: Digital pigment fine art print on paper

Size: H: 325 x W: 465mm

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A print featuring a woman in a red dress seated on the left with paper in her hand against a purple/blue background and a pink border. To her right are images of buildings, a leaf, medals, and a pamphlet. At the bottom is a blue border with the words, "Flora Murray" in cursive. On the right side of the image are two silhouettes of women. On their left is poem "Time takes them home that we loved, fair names and famous, To the soft long sleep, to the broad sweet bosom of death; But the flower of their souls he shall not take away to shame us, Nor the lips lack song for ever that now lack breath. For with us shall the music and perfume that die not dwell, Though the dead to our dead bid welcome, and we farewell. Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1874. In Flora Murray, 1920, p. 212. Below the poem are silhouette images of the images on the reverse. At the bottom is the reverse image of "Flora Murray" in cursive.
Print: To the Dear Love of Comrades: in Memory of Flora Murray, Fiona Dean, 2012

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