IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240109 accession number: P.15079-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2020 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Head and shoulders of an old, bearded man wearing a tattered and patched coat and a fur hat. Head turned slightly towards the left. A small rat sits on his cloak at the far right, looking out at the viewer. After Cornelis Visscher's large plate, The Rat-Catcher (1655; Hollstein, 50) in which the figure is three-quarter length and standing with his boy and dog in a courtyard. title: print NOTES ----- type: history note value: VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in pen and ink on the verso presumably relates to Vansittart's own cataloguing system and the number written in graphite to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240109 TECHNIQUES ---------- mezzotint CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ creation date: 1683 - 1729 creation date earliest: 1683 creation date latest: 1729 culture: 18th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Smith, John maker: Smith, John maker: Visscher, Cornelis de