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  • Rats, and monsters representing death and diseases attributed to rats. Colour lithograph by O. Nicolitch, 1920.
  • Rats at a port. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats fighting; the plague spreading. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats living in the sewers. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats overunning a dilapidated house, spreading the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats stowing away in large boxes, carrying the plague to new places. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A dying rat, mourned by three other rats; advertising Tord-Boyaux rat poison. Wood engraving, 18--.
  • Humane destruction of rats and mice / by C.W. Hume.
  • Humane destruction of rats and mice / by C.W. Hume.
  • A skeleton with snakes and rats. Etching by C. Grignion, 1821.
  • A rat-catcher enticing rats in to a tray which is strapped around his shoulder; he also holds a pole with a cage on top of it in which rats are trapped. Etching by Vliet.
  • The global spread of plague, carried by rats. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat; representing the battle against rats and mice in the Netherlands. Lithograph by J. Roëde, ca. 1950 (?).
  • A rat-catcher (accompanied by two dogs) carrying a cage of live rats in his right hand and a sharpened wooden stick with dead rats dangling from it in his left. Stipple engraving by J. Baldrey, 1789, after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Obstructions on mooring-lines to stop rats boarding ships. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Ganesha and his two wives, Siddhi and Buddhi, surrounded by six attendants and his rats. Chromolithograph.
  • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: students experimenting with white rats in cages. Photograph, c. 1933.
  • Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority rat-catchers dipping rats in buckets of petrol to kill fleas for plague control. Liverpool, England. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • The path of infection of plague from rats via fleas to man. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • An hippopotamus, a pelican, two flamingos, two water-rats, two ostriches and a crocodile in a landscape. Watercolour.
  • Entrance to the sewers of a European city, a breeding ground for rats and plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • India: a laboratory in which dead rats are being examined as part of a plague-prevention programme. Watercolour, by E. Schwarz, 1915/1935 (?).
  • A rat-catcher carrying a pole with dead rats suspended from it, a box strapped over his left shoulder and wearing a hat advertising his occupation. Line block after L. Flameng.
  • A monkey dressed as a rat-catcher, smokes a pipe, and holds a pole with a wooden box attached to it (containing rat poison) from which dead rats dangle. Pencil drawing with watercolour by Fernand Pelez de Cordova.
  • Martyrdom of Christian saints by being shut up to be bitten by mice or rats, crowded together like locusts, or trampled by horses. Woodcut.
  • Variation of colour in rats as described in Mendel's Law, plate 6 in Genetics and Eugenics by W. E. Castle, Harvard University Press, 1916
  • A rat-catcher in Haarlem with a rat running across his cape, holds out rat poison in his left hand; to the left a boy assistant carries a cage on a long stick with rats in it and hanging off it. Engraving after C. Visscher.
  • Iloffa, Nigeria: a Yoruba girl selling dried rats and mice for medicinal use, from a basket in the marketplace. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.