Skeletons From The Johnson Closet: Comparing An Anti-Vaccination Handbill With Earlier Images Of Death, Kenneth Gray

This article examines interesting correspondences between two items collected by John Johnson: a 19th century handbill protesting compulsory smallpox vaccination in which Death is shown vaccinating a child and an image after Holbein with motto and text in an emblem book of 1789 showing Death leading away a child.