Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Coloured etching, 18--, after J. Gillray, 1802.

  • Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1800-1899
Reference:
23019i
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Description

Patients are spoon-fed "opening mixture" as they come through the door. A boy standing next to Jenner is holding his pot labelled "vaccine pock hot from ye cow", on his jacket is a badge saying "Pancras" and in his pocket a paper entitled "Benefits of the vaccine process"

Publication/Creation

1800-1899

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 22.6 x 33 cm

Lettering

The cow pock - or - the wonderful effects of the new inoculation! - Vide, the publications of ye anti-vaccine society.

References note

Not found in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947 (but a copy of no. 9924)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 23019i

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