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Original - 18th-century anti-vaccination quackery, as satirised by James Gillray. His illustration pokes fun of one of the claims made against the cow pox innoculation: That it would cause cow-like appendages to grow out of the body. Reason I don't believe we have any of James Gillray's work as FP. Without wanting to understate Hogarth's ...
Moseley expressed his views before Parliament during investigations into the practice in 1802 and 1808. His outlandish theories were the basis for a satirical cartoon by James Gillray called “The Cow Pock” which portrayed small cows bursting out of human bodies. [4] [3] Moseley died in Southend, a favorite summer vacation spot, in 1819 ...
James Gillray (13 August 1756 [1] [2] – 1 June 1815) was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. Many of his works are held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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Report from the Original Vaccine Pock Institute, 1805 "That he was led to undertake this novel practice in 1774 to counteract the small-pox, at that time prevalent at Yetminster, where he then resided, from knowing the common opinion of the country ever since he was a boy (now 60 years ago) that persons who had gone through the cowpock ...
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The work was completed using a version of the supposed Venetian secret. The Venetian secret was a major scandal in the art world of eighteenth-century Britain. It involved the alleged rediscovery of secret painting methods that Renaissance painters in Venice had purportedly used to produce dazzling effects of color. [ 1 ]