Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Cow Pock

The Cow Pock

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 importance, I think it's fair to say Gillray, the other major satiric artist from that period, captured a different side of 18th century life to Hogarth, and his unique view is very valuable.

Articles this image appears in

Edward Jenner, Vaccine, Cowpox, James Gillray, Vaccine controversy

Creator

James Gillray

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Haha... funny, but gross at the same time Intothewoods29 (talk) 18:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Which is... pretty typical for Gillray =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 18:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support We're short on medical-related FPs. This image helps fill that gap, and does it with humor and historical value. Durova^Charge! 11:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose I've never been a great fan of cartoons becoming FPs, this one seems to have especially low EV, and the artwork isn't all that good either. Clegs (talk) 15:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
  • It's by the most important cartoonist of the 18th century, after Hogarth. What next? Let's reject Ruskin as poor art? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:47, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support, a great image to display the public view of inoculations. This image takes me back to my GCSE history course- it was in my text book and I think it was in an exam. J Milburn (talk) 00:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Quality reproduction, interesting and valuable image.--ragesoss (talk) 00:41, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:The cow pock.jpg MER-C 07:33, 17 August 2008 (UTC)