REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

The rat-poison seller

1632
Etching, third state of three, 140 x 125 mm
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Catalogue number: Bartsch 121.

The householder purchasing rat poison from the vendor and his little mate, who advertise the effectiveness of their product by displaying its victims, turns his head away from it all.