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

James Gillray

Reference:: 11754i

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Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Watercolour after J. Gillray, 1802. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The small boy standing next to Jenner is holding a pot labelled: "vaccine pock hot from ye cow"

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour ; image 23.8 x 35 cm

Contributors

James Gillray

Lettering

Lettering is inscribed on the mount in pencil: "Vaccine d'apres Gillray"

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, no. 9924 (Gillray's etching)

Yubraj Sharma, Spiritual energetics of homoeopathic materia medica, Wembley: Academy of light, 2006, vol. 2, p. 714

Reference

Wellcome Collection 11754i

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in "Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World" at Kensington Palace, London, 22 June - 12 November 2017.