Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail at Tapp, a health officer who resists the new discovery. Coloured etching, 1801.

The two prints shown are also in the Wellcome Library (catalogue numbers 16132i and 16139i)

Tapp was the officer of health in the 7th arrondissement of Paris in the late 1790s; he was asked by the mayor to look into introducing vaccination into that part of the city, but instead launched an unrestrained attack on what he saw as "une pure charlatannerie" (François Colon, Histoire de l'inoculation et des progrès de la vaccine en France, Paris: Le Normont, 1801)

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

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 21.1 x 27.7 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/24/4

Sept contre un, ou le comité de la vaccine ... Lettering as speech, from left to right: "Vous êtes des charlatans. Il est tems que tu sortes. Il a peut être raison. Vous nous le payerez citoyen Tapp... Ah! ah! ah! ah!" Sheets of paper on table from left to right: "Essai sur la vaccine", "Découvert important". On the floor a sheet containing a sum: "1486 [+] 2315. Total 3801". A tube saying "A Milan". A paper reading "Gazette de France"

Wellcome Collection 16125i

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