Night Collection (page 4)

The Wolves and the Sheep
THE WOLVES AND THE SHEEP The wolves break the peace pact they had with the sheep, and attack them in their sheepfold; a faithless enemy is not to be trusted

Odyssey / Penelope / Gorguet
Penelope with her maids, weaving a shroud for her father-in-law. (She unravelled this every night because she had promised to chose one of her Suitors as soon as it was completed)

Dancers at Night
This tempera painting depicts a night time scene of costumed dancers performing to music from a stringed instrument and tambourine, around a grand statue of a fine garden terrace. Date: circa 1918

London Palladium, autumn variety season, 1952
London Palladium Theatre, programme cover, Variety Season, Autumn 1952 Date: 1952

Music cover, Little Spanish Villa by the Sea, recorded by Debroy Somers and his Band. Date: 1932

Dancing Night Cats by Louis Wain Date: 1914

Victorian Greeting Card - Owls in Town
Two owls in top hats out at night. Date: circa 1890

The Embankment at Night - Base of Cleopatras Needle
The Embankment at Night - Sphinx at the base of Cleopatras Needle. Date: circa 1910s

The Thunderstorm by Edmund Blampied
A woman cowers under her bed covers as a thunderstorm is in progress outside. Date: 1914

I Want to be Happy, by Elsie Harding. 1925

Temple of Luxor. Night view of the first courtyard. Egypt

Kitzbuhel by night, Tyrol, Austria, alpine town and popular ski resort. Date: circa 1930

Rothesay Pier, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland at night
Rothesay Pier, Scotland at night. Date: circa 1930s

Musicians in the snow on a Christmas card, about to have something poured on them from a jug. circa 1890s

Twelfth Night, Act II Scene iv, by William Heath Robinson
Scene from the Shakespeare comedy, Twelfth Night, Act II Scene iv, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Showing a banquet at Orsinos house, with the clown Feste singing a sad love song

Blitz in the City of London - AFS firefighters, WW2
Blitz in the City of London - AFS firefighters at work with hoses following a bombing raid. Date: 1940s

Thames Embankment by night - View toward Westminster, London
Thames Embankment by night - View toward the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London. Note the elctricity saving of only lighting every other light. Date: circa 1910s

Front cover, La Baionnette, WW1
Front cover design for La Baionnette, an issue for Christmas, showing a French soldier on the Western Front finding the baby Jesus in a crate marked Fragile. Date: 1916

Firefighters working at scene of restaurant fire, Biggin Hill, SE London

Milton / Comus / Stars 1634
the Stars That nature hung in Heav n, and fill d their Lamps with everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely Travailer. Date: First published : 1634

First World War - Blackout cartoon postcard
Hoping to see more of you - mindful of the blackout enforced in London during World War one, this couple look forward to getting a better view of each other when their paths next cross

Bedtime by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration depicting a very sweet little girl with straight bobbed hair and a pot belly warming her toes by the stove before bedtime

Policemans helmet with Christmas lights
A closeup view of a policemans helmet with a night time street behind it, decorated with Christmas lights

Batgers Fireworks crackers box label
Bright and colourful label for a box of Batgers fireworks crackers depicting a spectacular firework display over a town by a river

Night Piece by Aubrey Beardsley. An almost entirely black composition with the figure of a woman. Illustration in The Yellow Book, volume I, April 1894

Highgate Cemetery, London, 19th century
Engraving showing Highgate Cemetery, London, at night sometime in the 19th century

Broadway, New York, 1945
Photograph showing the lights of Broadway, New York, at night in 1945. After war-time austerity, these lights signalled an up-swing in American recreation

The Arrival of the Indian Mail at Folkestone, 1844
Engraving showing the Mail ship entering Folkestone Harbour, with the Express Train standing by to receive the mail and take it to London

Animal Band Good Night
Poodle conductor, standing on a dais, raps the baton on the music stand while a donkey bass player, a goat trumpeter & a ? dog percussionist strike up a tune

Ufos / Fate Cover 1958
This UFO, resembling an electric light bulb, is seen over San Francisco by D Bruce Berry and Marion Shepherd

Westminster / Parl 1926
Westminster by night

Couple Dancing Jazz 1920
A fashionable couple dancing to a jazz band in a German night club

Stagecoach through Toll
A stagecoach passing through a toll gate at night entitled " Good night"

Tree in Town Square
Candle-lit tree stands in a snowy town square

Thames / Lantern Slide
Thames wharves by night Date: 1910

Matilda Escapes Stephen
Empress Matilda escapes in white clothing over snow and ice from Oxford, where she had been besieged by King Stephen

Scene from Shakespeares Twelfth Night
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, Twelfth Night, in which Sir Toby Belch encourages the reluctant duellists, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and the page Cesario (Viola disguised)

Man being attacked by a parrot and cat in a drawing room. More Miseries. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson to accompany Reverend James Beresfords Miseries of

Fairyland Express, All Aboard for the Land of Nod
Toddlers in white nightgowns board a train to the Land of Nod, accompanied by various toys as bedtime companions. Date: 1924

Programme cover, The Opera House, Manchester. 1937

Burial of De Soto on the Mississippi
Spanish soldiers lower the wrapped body of Hernando De Soto into the Mississippi River. A soldier holds a torch as a priest reads from the Bible

British postcard, Coming down! WW1
British postcard, Coming down! Depicting a German airship with the face of Kaiser Wilhelm, plunging to earth in flames. 1914-1918

LFB firefighters taking a tea break during their attendance at a fire. Date: circa 1950s

The Dolly Sisters and John Westley in His Bridal Night, 1916, New York Date: 1916

The Dolly Sisters in His Bridal Night, 1916, New York Date: 1916

Trafalgar Square, London on a foggy night - the neon lights on the circular dome of the Coliseum Theatre on St. Martins Lane can be seen peeking out over the distant rooftops beyond

Cartoon, January, Twelfth Night, Drawing Characters -- part of a series of Christmas and New Year cartoons. circa 1840s

Advertisement for America via Sabena airlines. circa 1960

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