Rat Collection (page 4)

Red Indian Hair Care
The dressing table of a Seminola Indian from the Everglades, Florida, U.S.A. The sausage-roll shaped rat serves as a support for the coiffure built upon it. Date: 1930s

A Mongoose on the Arm
Peggy Hill of Camden Town, London, with her rat-catching mongoose. Date: November 1932

Caloprymnus campestris, Desert rat-kangaroo
The Desert-rat kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) is an extinct marsupial that lived in Australia. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2010

Rattus rattus, black rat
Detail of plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Mesembriomys gouldii, black-footed tree-rat (Gray 1843). BMNH 1842.5.26.18 skull with abnormal incisors collected by Gilbert, holotype

GERMANY. D�orf. Room of the K21 Museum
GERMANY. D� orf. Room of the K21 Museum

The Pied Piper
A rat catcher with a coat of many colours came forward and oprmised to rid the town of vermin for a large sum of money and the citizens were united with him and assured him of his salary

Kangaroos Various 19C
Various kangaroos: Lord Derby s, Aroe, Parry s, Woolly, Brush-Tailed, Rat- Tailed and Rabbit-Eared. Date: 19th century

Yoshiwara at night in the day? of the rat. Print shows a courtesan with two attendants(?). Date ca. 1804

Picking young pines on the day of the rat

Beauty holding a calendar scroll for the year of the rat

Even a rat may help to free a lion - La Fontaine. Illustration shows a Uncle Sam as a lion trapped in a net labeled Lobbyism and a small rat, identified as Col

Kriegsgefangenenheimkehr. Auskunft! Rat! Hilfe!. Poster shows a returning German prisoner of war, clutching his bundles and looking bewildered; in background are other returning prisoners of war

Waterloo Commuters
Passengers and commuters leaving one of the platforms at London Waterloo railway station, England. Note all the old- fashioned railway carriage doors. Date: 1981

Dutch poster warning against the Black Market
Dutch poster warning people that the Black Market is a form of theft -- don t steal from your countrymen, ensure equal distribution for all! Showing a rat eating grain from a torn sack. 1940s

Confounded Rat / Col
" I DO THINK THEREs A CONFOUNDED RAT IN THE ROOM!" Date: Circa 1840

Fall / Newfoundland / 1934
CHAMPION WATER RAT Owner: Kerr Date: 1934

Forty Warm Winks
Bonzo, the canine cartoon character created by George Studdy and hugely popular during the 1920s, is pictured getting closer and closer to the fire and on drowsing off

The Rat Hunt by John Hassall
A group of lively boys join in a rat hunt, charging after an unfortunate rat who has been discovered in a hay rick

A tabby cat stalking a mouse
A tabby cat on the prowl stalks a brown rat. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The Two Rats, Fox & Egg
THE TWO RATS, THE FOX AND THE EGG: To save the egg they ve found from a fox, one rat ingeniously grips the egg, the other drags him to safety by his tail

Fable / Rat and Elephant
THE RAT AND THE ELEPHANT A rat claims he is as good as the elephant on whose back rides a wealthy sultan and his entourage; the sultans cat reminds him he is vulnerable

The League of Rats
THE LEAGUE OF RATS The council held by the rats

Soldier in Barbed Wire
The Most Unkindest Cut of All - A British Tommy struggling to force his way through an entanglement of barbed wire, comes across the trophy of a German helmet

Cartoon Soldier Asleep
Still Life on the Western Front. Two young privates observe an older soldier asleep at his post

BROWN RAT
(rattus norvegicus) The BROWN RAT, seen enjoying a snack

Threshing, Britain
Threshing by hand on the floor of a barn in an English farmyard: the dog, meanwhile, has caught a rat

Various types of rodent: Agouti, Hamster, Marmot, Squirrel, Fat Dormouse, Fieldmouse, House Mouse, Black Rat, Woodmouse, and Blind Mole Rat

Livingstone Attacked
He is attacked by a lion which shakes him as a terrier shakes a rat

House that Jack Built 3
This is the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built

Rat Fur Coat 1922
Wrap over rat fur coat with a high stand collar a yoke with embroidered panels bordered in silver fox fur & embroidery. The styling has an Eastern European feel

Arboreal Spiny Rat
Arboreal Spiny rat (Echimyidae Echimys)

Rat Catcher and Dog
The rat catcher and his dog walking along a London street, striking fear into any rats they meet

Reptilian Reunion
A reptilian reunion

Brown Rat / Thorburn
A brown rat

Rat-Crown / Strasbourg
Rats found at Strasbourg with their tails tangled in a RAT-CROWN - the French call it the roi-des-rats

Ratcatcher / Kent / 19th C
Relations between rats and people have never been very friendly, and this Kentish rat-catcher is dedicated to diminishing the rat population by fair means

Rat Retired from World
THE RAT WHO RETIRED FROM THE WORLD: A rat, tired of worldly cares, retires to live in a cheese; when fellow rats request help, he says he is unable to assist

Fairy Rides Rat
A fairy rides a rat, carrying a lantern to warn other traffic of their approach

Caroll / Alice & Cards
Alice and the Cards

Cinderella / Warwick Goble
Cinderella by the fireside

Chinese Zodiacal Pairs
The 12 creatures of the Chinese zodiac positioned in opposing pairs

Fable / Cat and Old Rat
The Cat And The Old Rat

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