The apostate Jack R - the political rat catcher - NB. Rats taken alive! Size:S: 45 x 30cm a child is being lifted

a child is being lifted through an open window during the outbreak of plague which occured in 1665

View across the River Thames of London Bridge with Southwark Cathedral beyond and boats and ships on the water

The scene takes place in the Strand

A fat tradesman stands at the door of a house chattering with an elderly couple

The apostate Jack R - the political rat catcher - NB. Rats taken alive! Size:S: 45 x 30cm a child is being lifted'The apostate Jack R the political rat catcher NB. Rats taken alive!', 1784. John Robinson, Secretary to the Treasury in the late government, on his hands and knees, catching rats in a ramshackle room. He is holding out a paper, inscribed Pension to one of the rats, all of whom have human faces. On his back is a cage baited with a miniature coronet inscribed Places.