Rat Collection (page 2)

Scorpion fish, rat fish, cowfish and firefish
Red scorpion fish, Scorpaena scrofa 1, rat fish, Chimaera monstrosa 2, scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis 3, and broadbarred firefish, Pterois antennata 4

Kangaroo rat beside rocks. Artist: Thomas Bewick

Emigration - Fleas and Rats. 19th century

Terrier racing in Juan les Pins
A terrier racing contest in the French Riviera resort of Juan les Pins, organised by Captain and Mrs Russell Roberts on the terrace of the Casino

Dog ratting 1850s
Dog ratting at a show held at The Graham Arms, Graham Street, London. Involving capturing rats in a pit or other enclosed area

Rat-catcher 1850s
Jack Black, was a rat-catcher and mole destroyer from Battersea. Date: circa 1850s

Black mourning boa 1910
Very much in demand the black boa, due to the recent death of King Edward VII. May 1910

Music cover, Les Rats Quadrilles, The Rats, composed by G Redler. 1843

Cot header design, Rat Landlord and Mouse

Advert for Le Rat Mort, 7 Place Pigalle, Montmartre Date: 1920s

Megalomys desmarestii, antillean giant rice rat. Catalogue number NHM 1850.11.30.6

Oligoryzomys victus, St. Vincent pygmy rice rat (holotype). Catalogue reference NHM 1897.12.26.1)

Tickety Tock - Silhouette illustration
Tickety Tock Silhouette Illustration -- two rabbits, a rat and a squirrel. Date: 1934

3 RATS NIBBLING 19C
A brown rat, a long-tailed rat and a black rat, all nibbling at morsels of food. Date: late 19th century

FALL / RETRIEVER / FLAT / 1939
CHAMPION KALA RAT OF ADLINGTON Owned by Hemm. Date: 1939

RAT POISON SELLER
French seller of rat poison Date: 1845

RAT-CROWN (COUPIN)
Rats tangled in a RAT-CROWN - the French call it the roi-des-rats Date: 1904

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats

Advert for Rat Mort, Montmartre, Paris, 1924
Advert for one of the most famous of Parisian night-time landmarks, the Rat Mort, Montmartre, Paris, 1924 Date: 1924

A sketch of the interior of Le Rat Mort night-spot in Paris, 1920s Date: 1920s

Ratting in the trenches, WWI
Ratting: The New Sport in the Trenches. British soldiers follow a terrier as it dashes along a trench on the Western Front in pursuit of a rat

Toad of Toad Hall by A A Milne
Promotional postcard for Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne from Kenneth Grahames The Wind in the Willows (1908); music H. Fraser-Simson

Silhouette. The Pied Piper. The Pied Piper leading the children out of the rat infested town of Hamelin. German. Date: circa 1920

The first Hawker P1127 XP831 at RAE Bedford
The first Hawker P1127, XP831, at RAE Bedford. It has its RAT extended

Cat and owl as rat catchers on a Christmas card
Cat and owl as rat and mouse catchers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans in The Triumph of the Rat (1926) directed by Graham Cutts Date: 1926

Desmarests hutia, Capromys pilorides, and Karoo Bush Rat, Myotomys unisulcatus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France

Wild Life on the Western Front - Rats in the Trenches
Rats grown to aldermanic size pictured scuttling around the trenches on the Western Front. The vermin were a perennial problem during the conflict. Date: 1917

MOONRAT (family: Erinaceidae). Sepilok forest, Borneo

Abdullah cigarettes advertisement, WW1 - trench rats
One of a series of advertisements for Abdullah cigarettes during the First World War illustrated by Lewis Baumer. This one employs the familiar image of a British Tommy dismayed to find that

Rat Pit at The Swan Inn, Ash Ranges, Ash, Surrey
The Rat Pit at The Swan Inn, Ash Ranges, Ash, Surrey. Publican John Tupper (1817-1903) was celebrated for his breeding of sporting dogs and game cocks

Interior of Le Rat Mort, Paris
Sketch of the nterior of Le Rat Mort, Montmartre showing dancers and diners, Paris Date: 1912

Le Souper at Le Rat Mort, Paris
Sketch of Le Souper at Le Rat Mort, Montmartre, showing dancers and diners, Paris, 1921 Date: 1921

Plants / Plantago Major
Greater, or Rat-Tail Plantain

Dick Whittington. Lyceum Theatre. Artist E. P. Kinsella
Dick Whittington. The cat is shown here ridding Morocco of its plague of rats, thus earning the gratitude of the King and making Dicks fortune. For the Lyceum Theatre, Christmas 1911

Cinderella by Walter and Frederick Melville
Cinderella, produced by brothers Walter (1875-1937)and Frederick Melville (1877-1938), at the Princes Theatre, on 26th December 1912. The artist is E. P Kinsella. Date: 1912

Cat and rat
Unusual Friends - cat and rat. 1950s

Dog with a rat on a kennel-shaped New Year card
Dog with a rat in its mouth on a kennel-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Dog with a rat on a kennel-shaped Christmas card
Dog with a rat in its mouth on a kennel-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cats and dogs on a three-part Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Racing terriers at the Du Var Kennels, French Riviera
The sport of terrier-racing as practised at the Du Var Kennels on the French Riviera. The terriers were released from a starting box to chase an artificial rat, drawn on the end of a long string

Cavendish Road School for Deaf Children, Balham
The London School Boards Cavendish Road School for Deaf, Balham, south London - a clay modelling class. The boy at the end of the table holds tame rat, used as a model. Date: early 1900s

Zoological Misfitz - Mr Cadger Rat. early 20th century

Frogs boxing on a Christmas card
Frogs having a boxing match on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Frogs playing leapfrog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Fairies roasting their dinner on a Christmas card
Some rather savage-looking fairies wearing rodent skins in the snow, roasting a rat over the fire for their dinner on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

The Rat by David L Estrange
Promotional postcard for The Rat by David LEstrange (= Constance Collier and Ivor Novello). First produced at the Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich, and Prince of Wales Theatre, 9th June 1924

Stop Thief! by Carlyle Moore
Promotional postcard for Stop Thief ! by Carlyle Moore. First produced in England, at the Theatre Royal, York, 14th October and New Theatre, 21st October 1915. Date: 1915

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