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Images from the collections

Images about Rats

29 images from works
  • Ganesha and his two wives, Siddhi and Buddhi, surrounded by six attendants and his rats. Chromolithograph.
  • Ganesha. Chromolithograph.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.
  • Ganesha enthroned holding his symbols with his rat. Watercolour drawing.
  • Infestation with mice / E.L. Millar.
  • Naylor's Dog Show consisting of prize dogs of various breeds... : novelty extraordinary giant rat... : Mr. Samson, the wonderful Living Skeleton Man who is greatly contrasted with the extraordinary American Fat Child.
  • Top left, a rat; top right, a mouse; centre left, a water rat; centre right, a pouched rat; bottom left, the African mole rat; bottom right, the cape mole rat. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1818.
  • Still life with a ledger, a skull and other objects. Oil painting, 1766.
  • A man goes into a barn and opens a rat trap; a rat jumps put and bites him on the chin. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Infestation with mice / E.L. Millar.
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Works from the collections

48 works

    • Books

    Rat / Jonathan Burt.

    Burt, Jonathan. | Date: 2006
    • Ephemera

    Why should I worry? : Rodine kills rats and mice.

    Thomas Harley Ltd. | Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Ganesha enthroned holding his symbols with his rat. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 26721i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Ganesh holding banners and wearing a t-shirt bearing the letters 'IHO' for Indian Health Organisation; two rats pinch food from a platter below; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Bharat Press. Lithograph, ca. 1997.

    | Date: [1997?] | Reference: 677295i
    • Pictures

    Two smiling rats embracing, against a yellow background with grey rat designs: campaign against rats in Denmark. Colour lithograph by Joh, 195-(?).

    Joh, poster designer, active approximately 1945. | Date: [between 1950 and 1959?] | Reference: 825563i
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Related topics

Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
Hindu gods
Hindu mythology
Rats - Control
Denmark
Hindu symbolism
Hindu goddesses
Elephants
Mice
Rat baits and repellents

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