A woman telling a man that vaccination not baptism might have killed her child. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1891.

  • Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.
Date:
1891
Reference:
14291i
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Description

Caption reads: "My little boy sir, died when he was only two months old, just after he had been vaccinated." "How very sad! Had he been baptised?" "Yes, sir; but it was the vaccination as carried him off, sir!"

Publication/Creation

[London], 1891.

Physical description

1 print : wood engraving ; border 19.3 x 12 cm

Lettering

Cause and effect. Du Maurier.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 14291i

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