A rat catcher [graphic]

Description

Title: A rat catcher [graphic]
Creator: Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [26 January 1789]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Janry. 26th, 1789, by W. Dickinson, New Bond Street
Abstract: A man, accompanied by two dogs, carries a cage of live rats in his right hand and in his left hand, a sharp, wooden stick on which dead rats are impaled
Description: Title engraved below image.
Plate was engraved by either John Baldrey or his brother Joshua Kirby Baldrey.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 17 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : stipple engraving, etching, and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 38.0 x 29.0 cm.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 38.1 x 30 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 70. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 17. Bunbury album.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]