M0000144B: Edward Jenner performing his first vaccination, 1796

Date:: 19 July 1929

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/3/17A/

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0000125-M0000242WT/D/1/20/1/3
        M0000144B: Edward Jenner performing his first vaccination, 1796WT/D/1/20/1/3/17A/

About this work

Description

Oil painting by Ernest Board depicting Edward Jenner (1749-1823) performing his first vaccination on a child in 1796. The painting is possibly one of several commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome for the Wellcome Gallery of Portraits in 1912. Related images: V0018142, M0000144, M0000144C

Publication/Creation

19 July 1929

Physical description

6 photographs slide transparencies, range in size from 5 x 5 cm to 10 x 12.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 45906i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.