Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10080
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Portrait silhouette of William Woodville
Date
1801
Sitter
William Woodville (1752 - 1805, British) , Physician
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X237/2
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 268mm
width (print): 205mm
width (print): 205mm
Subject
Description
Silhouette of William Woodville, facing to the right as viewed.
Plate 2 from the book Observations on the cow-pock, by John Coakley Lettsom (Nichols & Son for Joseph Mawman, London, 1801) Inscribed below the image: “W. Woodville M.D.”
William Woodville was physician to the London Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St Pancras and conducted the first large-scale vaccination trials. He was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Plate 2 from the book Observations on the cow-pock, by John Coakley Lettsom (Nichols & Son for Joseph Mawman, London, 1801) Inscribed below the image: “W. Woodville M.D.”
William Woodville was physician to the London Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St Pancras and conducted the first large-scale vaccination trials. He was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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