Costume of an Italian rat-catcher, 17th century. In wide-brim hat, doublet, breeches, hose and shoes. With a square cloth painted with rats and mice fastened to a pole. Rats or mice to kill. Copied from Simon Guillini's etching of Annibal Caracci's illustration in Cries of Bologna, 1646. Copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his own The Cries of London, or Vagabondiana 2, edited by Francis Douce, John Bowyer Nichols, London, 1839.

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