M0019143: "The cowpox tragedy", coloured etching, 1812

Previous title, replaced October 2020: An attack on smallpox vaccination and on the Royal College o

Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1812, showing an attack on smallpox vaccination and on the Royal College of Physicians' advocation of it. Related images: V0011074

August 1962

3 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm slide transparencies; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 11757i

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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