A rat peering out of a hole into a yard where waste is left; advertising a fortnight of statutory rat extermination in Denmark. Colour lithograph after A. Lippert, 194-(?).

[København [Copenhagen]] : Sundhedskommissionen i København : Harling & Toksvig Reklamebureau A/S, [between 1940 and 1949?] ([København? [Copenhagen?]] : P. Christiansen A/S)

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 84.7 x 61 cm

Rotten. Ødelægger for over 80 mill. kroner om aaret. Lovpligtig rotteudryddelse 20. Marts. 7.April. Vær med i rottebekæmpelson. Harling & Toksvig – Reklamebureau A/S. Lettering states that the value that rats destroy in a year is more than 80 million Kroner. The statutory rat extermination period is from 20 March to 7 April

Wellcome Collection 824387i