A dandified physician takes the lancet to a turkey, watched over by fashionable women. Coloured etching, 1801.

Date:
[1801]
Reference:
16161i
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Description

'Dindonnade', a word that signifies both 'hoax' (from 'dindonner'- to dupe) and 'turkey' ('dindon'), is here used to parody 'vaccine' which is etymologically derived from 'vacca', the Latin for cow. The print ridicules the taking of fluid from an animal in order to insert it into a human being, thus promoting the anti-vaccination cause

Publication/Creation

Paris (Rue des Mathurins Sorbonne aux 2 pilastres d'or) : Depeuille, [1801]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 23.1 x 29.8 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/24/6

Lettering

La dindonnade ou la rivale de la vaccine ... Lettering continues: Voiëz le journal des sciences et des arts no. 129. en datte du 15 floréal an 9.

Notes

One of a series of vaccination related coloured prints produced by Depeuille, son of François-Jules-Gabriel Depeuille, who handed on the business in 1798

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16161i

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