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Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Rats Eating Fish Head and Bones
Japan
19th century
Wharf Rat, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens
1851
Rats amongst the Barley Sheaves
Thomas Hewes Hinckley
1851
Rats marked with the Nazi Swastika devouring books, the padlocked 'Escuela Normal' at the right
Alfredo Zalce
1943
Rat on a Fūchin, Ornament with a Design of Egoyomi (Pictorial Calendar)
Kubo Shunman
1816
Netsuke of Piece of Bamboo Containing a Rat (or Bat (?)
Japan
19th century
Feather-Brush and Doran (a Kind of Medicine Case) with a Netsuke of a Rat
Totoya Hokkei
probably 1816
Netsuke of Figure of Daikoku with a Rat on His Mallet
Japan
19th century
Kōrin Picture Album (Kōrin gafu) 光琳画譜
Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中
after 1826 (reprinted posthumously)
Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac
China
18th–19th century
Marion Manola as "Bats and Rats," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes
W. Duke, Sons & Co.
1889
Rat Snake (Hebi); Lizard or Skink (Tokage), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
Kitagawa Utamaro
1788
Emperor Enyū’s Outing to Funaokayama on the First Day of the Rat in the New Year
Reizei Tamechika
19th century
Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Japanese
16th century
A Little Game of Bagatelle, Between Old Abe the Rail Splitter & Little Mac the Gunboat General
John L. Magee
1864
Port of Shadows
H.C. Westermann
1967
Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Japanese
18th century
Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Japanese
ca. 1615–1868
Lunch at the Fork (Le Dejeuner à la Fourchette)
Johann Gottfried Schadow
1813
The Ambassador of Good Will
George Grosz
1936
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
ca. 1615–1868
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
ca. 1615–1868
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Japanese
19th century
The Political Clyster
William Hogarth
January 1757
Ink cake with cyclical imagery
China
late 19th–early 20th century
A Radish Plant, Seed, and Flower
late 18th century
That "Pesky" Rat Again
Unknown
1892
Short Haired Cheese
Robert Gober
1992–93
The Seller of Rat Poison
Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet
1620–40
Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Gotō Mitsutaka (Enjō)
mid-18th century
Netsuke of Two Rats
Okatori
early 19th century
Netsuke of Two Rats
Ikkan
mid-19th century
Ruler
Korea
late 19th–early 20th century
Ruler
Korea
late 19th–early 20th century
No. 3. Rat on Tast--for Dinner
Unknown
1860s–80s
Studies of Heads and a Rat
Benigno Bossi
1772
The Rat Catcher, from "The Beggars"
Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet
1632
Once more the horsemeat amateurs, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 10, 1865
Honoré Daumier
April 10, 1865
Rats and a Lamp
Qi Baishi
1947
Bishop Hatto and the Rats
Henry Marsh
ca. 1866–67