A rat stabbed by sign boards inscribed with messages against rats: campaign against rats in Kuwait. Colour lithograph, 1979.

Date:
1979
Reference:
979881i
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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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