A Georgian rat-catcher showing some captured rats in a cage. The customers are a parson and his wife. He wears a sash embroidered with rats and his ratter dogs bark at his feet. The Rat-Catcher. Handcoloured wood engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from W. H. Harrison’s The Humourist, a Companion for the Christmas Fireside, Rudolph Ackermann, 19 Strand, London, 1831.

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