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.

Selected images from this work

London (New Bond Street) : W. Dickinson, 26 January 1789.

1 print : stipple engraving ; image 31.8 x 24.2 cm

A rat catcher. ; H.W. Bunbury Esqr delt. ; J. Baldrey sculpt.

Tony Gould (ed.), Cures and curiosities: inside the Wellcome Library, London 2007, p. 66

Wellcome Collection 38292i

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