Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21120

    Portrait of Edward Jenner

    Date
    1802
    Sitter
    Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823, British) , Surgeon
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    After
    John Raphael Smith (1751 - 1812, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Edward Jenner, against an open landscape, leaning against a tree with his right arm, the left holding a hat. He wears a Regency-style coat, breeches and a striped waistcoat, with a cravat. In the background, cows and a milkmaid carrying a bucket.

    Illustration [plate not numbered] for the article ‘Some account of Edward Jenner, M.D.’, The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.13, (1802), pp.266-268.

    Inscribed below, ‘Edward Jenner. M.D. F.R.S. Mackenzie sc. Published by A. Tilloch Carey Street Sepr. 1 1802.’.

    Edward Jenner (1749-1823), British surgeon and pioneer of smallpox vaccination, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1788.
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