Edward Jenner. Pastel by John Raphael Smith, 1800.

  • Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812.
Date:
[1800]
Reference:
45702i
  • Pictures

About this work

Description

In the left background is Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Nearer to the foreground are cows with a milkmaid carrying a bucket of milk, representing their role in Jenner's discovery of vaccination

Publication/Creation

[1800]

Physical description

1 drawing : pastel on vellum ; sight 42.3 x 33.2 cm

Contributors

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/44/2

References note

Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts; a complete dictionary of contributors, vol. VII, London 1906, p. 185 ("Smith, John Raphael ... 1800. 565. D[itt]o. [i.e. Portrait of] Dr. Jenner")
Ellen G. D'Oench, "Copper into gold": prints by John Raphael Smith 1751-1812, New Haven 1999, pp. 166, 238, 252

Reference

Wellcome Collection 45702i

Type/Technique

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

    Note

Permanent link