Frank Barrett, English, a terracotta model of a nurse, believed to be Sister Dora, dated 1877, depicted in uniform, the circular base inscribed NON NOBIS NASCIMUR (We are not born for ourselves), with further motto stamp centered by a winged griffin, signed Frank Barrett. Sc 1877, 44cm high Note: Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora (1832-1878) was a 19th century Anglican nun and nurse in Walsall, Staffordshire. After a difficult family life, she eventually escaped to devote the rest of her days to nursing, working alone in a smallpox epidemic, horrific factory accidents and a pit disaster at Pelsall. Her nursing and medical skills, self-sacrifice, and personal devotion to the welfare of her patients meant she became a legend equal to Florence Nightingale in local eyes. In 1886 a statue by Francis John Williamson was erected in her honour in Walsall, the first public statue of a woman not of royal blood in the United Kingdom. The present lot is believed to be Sister Dora and was perhaps an unsuccessful entry for the competition to commemorate her. Please refer to department for condition report