Editorial"Watchman, what of the night." The line is from the King James version of Isaiah 21:11. There was a also a 1871 song called "Say, watchman, what of the night?" composed by Arthur Sullivan, 1906.
EditorialWatchman. Jasper Johns (American, born 1930); published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955). Date: 1966-1967. Dimensions: 865 x 600 mm (image); 923 x 614 mm (sheet). Color lithograph on tan wove paper. Origin: United States.
EditorialWatchman. Jasper Johns (American, born 1930); published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955). Date: 1966-1967. Dimensions: 865 x 600 mm (image); 923 x 614 mm (sheet). Color lithograph on tan wove paper. Origin: United States.
EditorialIndian servants' clothes: hukabardar or hookah pipe bearer, caukidar or watchman, serkar or steward, jamadar or head servant, seated banian or chief servant comptroller, chobdar or mace bearer. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bern...
EditorialJohnny and other revellers arrested by the Night Watchman after a riotous dance party in Covent Garden Chambers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the ...
EditorialFor what land leave you the dim-moon city of delight? Act V. Scene II. The watchman at the gate of the Moon, Bagdad. Hassan ... With illustrations by Thomas Mackenzie. London : William Heinemann, 1924. Source: 11774.k.13 plate opposite page 154.
EditorialA Carnatic Peon. Album of 82 drawings depicting the costume of vari. 1800 - 1801. A Carnatic Peon (Chuckler Caste) employed as a Watchman or Guard at the Hill Fort of Saatghurr. March 1800. Image taken from Album of 82 drawings depicting the costume o...
EditorialSeal of Robert II of Scotland. Scotland; 1386. [Obverse of seal] Impression of the seal of King Robert II of Scotland. The king enthroned with crown fleury of five leaves, holds a sceptre terminating with a foliated ornament, his left hand on his breas...
EditorialAdvertisement for Pear's soap. A night watchman. Pear's Annual. (London, England : 1900. Source: Pear's Annual. 1900. no.3, front cover. Christmas number.
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Print, The Westminster Watchman, Subject, Artist, Subject, Sir Cecil Wray, Admiral Samuel Hood, Thomas Rowlandson, Charles James Fox, British, Yorkshire 1734?1805 Lincolnshire, British, 1724?1816 Bath, British, London 1757?1827 Lon...
EditorialIndian servants' clothes: hukabardar or hookah pipe bearer, caukidar or watchman, serkar or steward, jamadar or head servant, seated banian or chief servant comptroller, chobdar or mace bearer. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bern...
EditorialJohnny and other revellers arrested by the Night Watchman after a riotous dance party in Covent Garden Chambers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combe's The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the ...
EditorialLondon watchman in great coat and hat with lantern and cudgel, 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Henry Pyne's The World in Miniature: England, Scotland and Ireland, Ackermann, 1827.
EditorialEnglish dandies in the Watch-house after assaulting a watchman. Tom and Jerry in Trouble after a Spree. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce Egan's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823.
EditorialChoukee-dar or watchman, in loincloth and turban, carrying a sword and shield. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.
EditorialThe Orgy aka The Rake at the Rose-Tavern (A Rake's Progress) 1735 The Tavern Scene shows the Rake amusing himself in a notorious brothel, the Rose Tavern in Covent Garden, after an evening of drinking and hooliganism. Next to the Rake on the flo...
EditorialIn Cracow, a watchman still blows his trumpet every full hour from one of the towers of St. Mary's Church, in memory of a precursor, killed by a Tartar's arrow in 1241.