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  • William Anthony, the last of the London night watchmen. Reproduction of wood engraving.
  • Robert Peel as a pugilist attacking night watchmen with the intention of replacing them by the police force. Etching by Paul Pry (W. Heath).
  • Boer War: hospital picket on the guard at night. Reproduction of a watercolour.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.
  • The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a nightwatchman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a nightwatchman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.