Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher who holds a long stick with a cage on top of it from which rats dangle. Etching by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1740.
A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher who holds a long stick with a cage on top of it from which rats dangle. Etching by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1740.
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A crowd gathered around a mountebank who points to a banner illustrating various methods of execution; to the left stands a rat-catcher who holds a long stick with a cage on top of it from which rats dangle. Etching by C.W.E. Dietrich, 1740.

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich · 1740

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: C.W.E. Dietricÿ, <lettering indistinct> & aqua forte Ao: 1740: de<lettering indistinct> '9 Jarmais=

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