Impacts of Smallpox Vaccination on British India

It "(...) seems likely from [Nigel Chancellor] revised identification, [that] Hickey's portrait of the three royal women of Mysore was commissioned by the Government of Madras to coincide with the public announcement of the young queen's vaccination on 19 July 1805"[1].Indeed, "The central figure['s] fingers of her right hand point towards the younger woman in the white sari, as if to emphasize her priority within the composition"[2].The latter wears a bandage applied following her vaccination, which she reveals by lifting her sleeve[3].I.