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Le marchand de mort-aux-rats

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Date

c.1830-1850

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Print after Hippolyte Louis Emile Pauquet (1797-after 1862)

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http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3464114

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Block cut by - Pierre Verdeil

Description

A rat poison seller, standing full-length, turned to the right, carrying a pole from which hang some dead rats, and a box slung across the shoulder; he wears a top hat and a brown coat. Hand-coloured wood-engraving.

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Lettered with title. Signed on block: 'Pauquet' and 'Verdeil'

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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image © Trustees of the British Museum

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