Rats Collection

Female Chartists Cartoon
How to treat the female Chartists Cockroaches, rats and mice should see off the most ferocious crowd of females

The Frog and the Rat. circa 1900

Southern Railway Ratcatcher
Official Rat catcher for Southern Railway with Terriers and quarry. Date: 1924

Suffolk Rats protecting their cheese or the County fencibles called to arms

RATS IN THE BARN C1910
Rats in a barn nibble on some apples. Date: circa 1910

Dick Whittington by Arthur Rackham
Dick Whittington arrives on the coast of Barbary, and everyone from the ship is entertained by the Moors. When they are invaded by rats and mice

London Rat Catcher
A rat-catcher at work in the London sewers

Pied Piper / Greenaway / Rat
The Pied Piper leads the rats away from the town

The Cad to the Man wot Drives the Sovereign, cartoon
The Cad to the Man wot Drives the Sovereign, political cartoon caricature of Sir Robert Peel as a ratcatcher with rats in a cage - hand coloured engraving, 1829 Date: 1829

WW2 - Home Front - Land Girl hunting rats with ferrets and the results of one day's offensive in a Hereford Barn. Date: circa 1942

Cartoon, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, by James Gillray. Depicting Napoleon (ironically in the role of John Bunyan's pilgrim, Christian) having to confront an array of problems

Comic postcard, Two men chatting in a pub - frogs and rats Date: 20th century

Vintage photograph WW II - British army enter Berlin 1945
Vintage photograph World War II - British army entry into Berlin 1945 7th Armoured Division, led by 11th Hussars, Desert Rats

Mammillaria prolifera and Mammillaria rhodantha (Mamillaria pusilla, Mamillaria rhodantha). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden

Rat catcher with a wooden leg. 17th century

Alfred Lester impersonating Gwen Farrar
Actor Alfred Lester doing a very decent impression of actress Gwen Farrar, with whom he was starring in the revue, Rats at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1923. Date: 1923

Rats tail, Babiana ringens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after Thomas Shotter Boys from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Music Sheet - Tutankhamen - Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney
Music sheet cover for the song, In the Day of Tut-ankh-amen written and composed by Reg Low and J. P. Long, and sung by Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar in the Andre Charlot revue, Rats

Emigration - Fleas and Rats. 19th century

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

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

Cot header design, Rat Landlord and Mouse

RATS & TRAP C1840 RATS & TRAP C1840
Two black rats nibble at a piece of cheese in a trap. Date: circa 1840

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

Cartoon, How to Treat the Female Chartists -- cockroaches, rats and mice should see off the most ferocious crowd of females. Date: 1848

RAT POISON SELLER
French seller of rat poison Date: 1845

MAGIC CATS OF CHINA
These magical spirit-cats perform the vital function of keeping away the rats which would otherwise devour the silkworms : the flowers also keep the worms healthy

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

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

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

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

Abrocoma bennettii. From: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Date: 1839

Old Type Terrier
An early type of terrier, resembling the Black & Tan Terrier of today. Used in the past, as its old name indicates, for hunting and destroying rats and mice

Trench Rats
A greater trench-worry than the Germans were the rats, according to the caption to this photo

Gulliver / Lilliputians
The Lilliputians clamber all over Gulliver: he compares the experience to an army of rats walking on their hind legs

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

Gertrude Lawrence appearing in Rats at the Vaudeville Theatr
A portrait of Gertrude Lawrence appearing in Rats at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, 1923 Date: 1923

Dancing at Theatres - Gertrude Lawrence and Robert Hobbs in Rats at the Vaudeville Theatre and Mariamna Karelina, A Russian danseuse in Battling Butler at the Adelhi Theatre, London, 1923 Date: 1923

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

Greetings card in the shape of a dog biscuit
Greetings card in the shape of a square dog biscuit -- Rats 2U. Date: circa 1890s

Zoological Misfitz - Mr Cadger Rat. early 20th century

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