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Mother vaccinating her child against smallpox

Artist: José de Fonseca y Miranda (ca. 1774 – after 1812)
Title: Mother vaccinating her child against smallpox
Date: 1801
Medium: Engraving. Plate III/IV of Origen y descubrimiento de la vaccina[.] Madrid, Oficina de Don Benito García y Compañía, 1801. This is the Spanish translation and annotation, by Dr. Pedro Hernández, of François Chaussier (1746-1828) Découverte de la Vaccine. Son caractère, a broadsheet published in Paris in 1801.
Photo Source: Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Hathi Trust
Item: 5294A