Edward Jenner. Engraving.

Date:
1800-1820
Reference:
574999i
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He holds a book labelled on the spine: "Jenner on cowpox", i.e. Jenner's An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae: a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox, London 1798

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1800-1820

Physical description

1 print : etching with line engraving and stipple ; oval portrait 27.8 x 23.8 cm in oval border 29 x 24.6 cm within rectangular border 43.2 x 34 cm

References note

Not in: R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973

Reference

Wellcome Collection 574999i

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