The apostate Jack R - the political rat catcher - NB. Rats taken alive! Size:S: 45 x 30cm View of an old Turnpike

View of an old Turnpike

Aldersgate Street

The scene takes place in the Strand

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

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 View of an old Turnpike'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.