Edward Jenner and two colleagues seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, the dead smallpox victims are littered at their feet. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808.

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811

Date:: 20 June 1808

Reference:: 11758i

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Description

On the right, Jenner, accompanied by two colleagues, dismisses three variolators, who depart on the left with curses. The print contains dialogue and annotations (see British Museum catalogue)

Publication/Creation

[London] (Piccadilly) : S.W. Fores, 20 June 1808.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour

Contributors

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/44/25

Lettering

Vaccination against smallpox, or mercenary & merciless spreaders of death & devastation driven out of society! Cruikshank del.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, no. 11093

Reference

Wellcome Collection 11758i

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in "Medicine Man" at Wellcome Collection, 7 October 2019 - 9 March 2020