Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Jenner NPG D19467

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Say, published by Thomas Palser, after James Northcote

A West Country surgeon, Jenner discovered vaccination against smallpox after testing the country lore that dairymaids, exposed to the mild cowpox virus, did not contract the killer disease. He published his findings in 1798, but it took ten years for the government to accept his discovery. Jenner campaigned vigorously, even encouraging the fashionable 'cowherd' poet Robert Bloomfield to write Good Tidings; or, News From the Farm (1804) to promote vaccination. By 1853 vaccination was compulsory in Britain and Jenner was posthumously considered a national... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.