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  • 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--.
  • A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A rat-catcher in Haarlem with a rat running along his cape holds out rat poison in his right hand; to the right a boy assistant carries a cage on a long stick with rats in it and hanging off it. Engraving by C. Visscher after himself.
  • A rat-catcher in Haarlem with a rat running along his cape holds out rat poison in his right hand; to the right a boy assistant carries a cage on a long stick with rats in and hanging off it. Etching by C. Visscher after himself.
  • A rat-catcher, carrying a box over his shoulder, is accompanied by a boy holding a cage on a long stick with rats in it. Coloured lithograph by F. Sexton, 1835, after C. Visscher.
  • Colour variation in wild Norway rats captured in England, fig 57 opp. page 126 in Genetics and Eugenics by W. E. Castle, Harvard University Press, 1916
  • A rat-catcher and his young assistant standing outside a doorway having their services refused by an old man: the rat-catcher holds a long stick with a cage on top of it containing rats, on his right shoulder sits a rat. Etching after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1632.
  • A rat-catcher and his young assistant standing outside a doorway having their services refused by an old man; the rat-catcher holds a long stick with a cage on top containing rats and on his left shoulder sits a rat. Etching by C. Bateman after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1632.
  • A rat-catcher and his young assistant standing at a doorway are having their services refused by an old man; the rat-catcher holds a long stick with a cage on top containing rats, on his right shoulder sits a rat. Etching by F.J. Crome, 1817, after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1632.
  • Ganesh holding banners and wearing a t-shirt bearing the letters 'IHO' for Indian Health Organisation; two rats pinch food from a platter below; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Bharat Press. Lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A group of mice and rats is presenting a cat on a pedestal with a petition, while the cat is shown chasing mice in the background. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher who holds a long stick with a cage on top of it from which rats dangle. Etching by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1740, after A. van Ostade.
  • A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher who holds a long stick with a cage on top of it from which rats dangle. Etching by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1740, after A. van Ostade.
  • A cat with a mouse in its mouth is descending the stairs in a corn chamber while rats, mice and weasels are running around three piles of corn; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • A man clings to a tree, struggling not to fall into a cauldron containing a monster while a bear and snakes look on; rats gnaw at the trunk of the tree; representing the threat and eventual victory of Death. Engraving by M. Mouzyn, 1656 (?), after A.P. van de Venne.
  • Top left, a rat; top right, a mouse; centre left, a water rat; centre right, a pouched rat; bottom left, the African mole rat; bottom right, the cape mole rat. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1818.
  • Rat coronary artery
  • Domestic pet. Rat
  • Rat carotid artery
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Ganesha with rat. Lithograph.
  • Rat spinal cord, LM
  • Vasculature of rat brain
  • Illustration of the rat king
  • Actin in rat embryo fibroblasts
  • ACh receptors at rat neuromuscular junction
  • Rat neural stem cells in culture