A rat stabbed by sign boards inscribed with messages against rats: campaign against rats in Kuwait. Colour lithograph, 1979.
- Date:
- 1979
- Reference:
- 979881i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
The rat is depicted in stylized form
Publication/Creation
[Kuwait] : [publisher not identified]?], 1979.
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 47.7 x 64.2 cm
Lettering
Al-ʿām al-awwal li-mukāfaha al-fiۥrān. Sa-ahimū maʿnā fi al-qadāۥ ʿalayhi was-mudammar iqtisād al-bilād innahu ganqul al-amrād maʿ tahiyāt al-lajna al-ʿalyā li-mukāfaha al-fiۥrān
Translation of lettering: Year 1 of the battle against rats. Come along with us to exterminate him. He destroys the country's economy and transfers diseases
Bears logo of the Rat control project: a rat pierced by a spike with lettering "Rat control project Kuwait 1979" in English with the equivalent in Arabic
Lettering in Arabic
Reference
Wellcome Collection 979881i
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores