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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.

A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 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

Español: Vacunadores, una mujer marcada por la viruela y la Muerte, 1856

Una densa litografía en tonos sepia muestra una multitud reunida frente a un edificio con columnas y frontón, donde un carruaje y varias figuras avanzan hacia el centro mientras una figura esquelética de la Muerte con guadaña aparece a la derecha. En primer plano, varias personas duermen entre figuras apiñadas, y listas de ciudades corren en columnas a ambos lados.

Português: Vacinadores, uma mulher marcada pela varíola e a Morte, 1856

Uma litografia densa em tons sépia mostra uma multidão reunida diante de um edifício com colunas e frontão, onde uma carruagem e várias figuras avançam ao centro enquanto uma figura esquelética da Morte, com foice, surge à direita. Em primeiro plano, várias pessoas dormem entre figuras aglomeradas, e listas de cidades correm em colunas dos dois lados.

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