Description:
English copper plate mezzotint of "Edward Jenner M.D." (1749-1823), an English physician who perfected the cure for smallpox through vaccination. The print was engraved by R. M. Meadows ("R. M. Meadows sculp."), based on painting by J. Robinson ("J. Robinson pinxit"). Dr. Stephen West Williams (1790-1855) named his only surviving son, Edward Jenner Williams (1823-1881) after Dr. Jenner, who was a great medical personality of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The print in purple, brown, white, green, and blue shows a portrait of a seated, grey-haired, smooth-shaven man wearing a white cravat, brown and blue coat, and brown pants, with a paper and quill in front of him and cows, house and trees in the background. The frame is modern. Edward Jenner (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.
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medicine Subjects:
Glass; Watercolor painting Link to share this object record:
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