print
- Museum number
- 1911,0717.2
- Title
- Object: The Rat Catcher
- Description
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A young boy wearing ragged clothes and a cap, sitting to left in front of a barrel, one hand resting on a rat-trap on top of it and holding up a rat in his right hand, smiling towards the viewer, with a cat staring at the rat from his shoulder; after Todeschini (misidentified as Murillo); scratched-letter proof. 1769
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1769
- Dimensions
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Height: 328 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 278 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Companion to 1911,0717.11, 'The Beggar Boy'. The source is a Todeschini painting at Stourhead, not Murillo.
For a state with engraved letters, see 2010,7081.3162
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Mrs W Lomas
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1911,0717.2