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  • The ship carrying the plague arrives in another country. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat on board a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • 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.
  • Rats at a port. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats fighting; the plague spreading. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A stow-away rat on a cart, carrying 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 rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. 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-.
  • A dead plague-infected rat. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat caught in a trap; victim to man's efforts to stem the spread of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A rat leaving a ship via the mooring rope, thus spreading the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Obstructions on mooring-lines to stop rats boarding ships. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The global spread of plague, carried by rats. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats, and monsters representing death and diseases attributed to rats. Colour lithograph by O. Nicolitch, 1920.