The apostate Jack R - the political rat catcher - NB. Rats taken alive! Size:S: 45 x 30cm Aldersgate Street

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

View of boats moored on the River Thames at Bankside

View across the River Thames of London Bridge with Southwark Cathedral beyond and boats and ships on the water

The apostate Jack R - the political rat catcher - NB. Rats taken alive! Size:S: 45 x 30cm Aldersgate Street'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.