Title

Night watchman, (late 18th century?). Artist: Thomas Rowlandson

Caption

Night watchman, (late 18th century?). A scruffy-looking man yawns as he patrols the streets with a lantern and cudgel. In the background two burglars are brazenly going about their business in an illustration of the inefficiency of parish law enforcement during the 18th century.
Museum of London

Date

1780

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A83_132

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,5Mb (3,6Mb) / 11,7in x 16,8in / 3500 x 5039 (300dpi)

Keywords

London England people male job man men night law guy crime occupation clothes weapon weapons color colour yawning lighting tired dress war lamp century lantern profession coat ladder criminal concept burglary thief scruffy law enforcement time of day burglar inefficient inefficiency useless warfare weaponry 18th century Eighteenth Century Museum of London cudgel nightwatchman prig TGN unobservant caricature watercolour Thomas Rowlandson Rowlandson Thomas watercolour caricature