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Sepia lithograph of a crowd before a columned university building, a carriage, and a skeletal Death with a scythe at right.

Vaccinators, a Smallpox-Scarred Woman and Death, 1856

A dense sepia lithograph shows a crowd gathered before a columned building with a pediment, where a carriage and figures move toward the center while a skeletal Death figure with a scythe looms at right. Foreground figures doze, and city names run in columns on each side.

Artist
Nittinger, Carl Georg Gottlob.
Date
1856
Medium
Caricatures Lithographs
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 2824 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1856.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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