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Astronomy: a star map of the night sky. Coloured engraving by G. Zuliani after Castellan, with lettering by G. Pitteri, 1777.
Date: 1777Reference: 46468i- Pictures
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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the night of 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1779]Reference: 43803i- Pictures
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Mount Vesuvius in quiescence by night, 1757, with the Bay of Naples and fishermen. Etching by R. Benard after Delarue.
De la Rue, draughtsman, active 18th century.Reference: 42903i- Pictures
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An eruption of Mount Vesuvius at night; people watching the eruption in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by F. Weber after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d', active approximately 1765.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 575698i- Pictures
A girl in a night-dress and a boy in pyjamas prepare to go to bed on Christmas Eve. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.
Lewis, Muriel, active approximately 1966-1968.Date: 28.11.67 [28 November 1967]Reference: 3000888iPart of: Adamson Collection- Ephemera
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Which hypnotic for the elderly? : in the elderly calm days and restful nights start with Heminevrin capsules.
Date: 1980- Pictures
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An eruption of Mount Etna at night; people in a boat in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by F. Weber after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d', active approximately 1765.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 575702i- Pictures
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Astronomy: a star map of the night sky. Coloured engraving by G. Zuliani after Castellan, with lettering by G. Pitteri, 1777.
Castellan.Date: 1777Reference: 46467i- Pictures
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Astronomy: a meteor shower in the night sky. Mezzotint after H. Robinson, 1783.
Robinson, Henry, active approximately 1783.Date: 14 Oct.r 1783Reference: 46243i- Books
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Substance of the trial of John Sparke, on the suspicion of the murder of Ann Sparke, his mother, by stangling [sic], on the night of the 23rd of November last.
Sparke, John, active 18th century.Date: 1795?]- Pictures
A man wearing night-dress reading a play. Etching by R. Brichet, 1783, after J.F. de Göz.
Goez, Joseph Franz, Freiherr von, 1754-1815.Date: [1784?]Reference: 2957116i- Pictures
An outdoor dance scene at night; to the front a blonde woman and an ebony-haired woman gaze out towards the viewer. Oil painting by Brenda Marshall.
Marshall, Brenda, active approximately 1956-1958.Date: 1950-1959Reference: 3001077iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A veiled young woman looking out from a balcony at night. Engraving by J. Rogers after A.M. Huffam.
Huffam, A. M., active 1825-1859.Reference: 39571i- Books
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Harlequin Sheppard. A night scene in grotesque characters: as it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By John Thurmond, Dancing-Master. With New Scenes Painted from the Real Places of Action. To which is prefix'd An Introduction, Giving an account of Sheppard's life: with a curious frontispiece representing Harlequin Sheppard.
Thurmond, John, active 1724-1749.Date: [1724]- Books
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Doings in London; or, day and night scenes of the frauds, frolics, manners, and depravities of the Metropolis / With thirty-three engravings, by Bonner, from designs by R. Cruikshank.
Smeeton, George, active 1800-1828.Date: 1850- Books
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A perpetual almanack, Consisting of astronomical and chronological tables, shewing, by inspection, the golden number;-dominical letter;-moon's age;-time of high-water at Dublin-bar;-moveable and immoveable feasts;-sun's rising and setting; with the length of days and nights in any year, for ever. Likewise a table of the visible eclipses of the sun and moon, within the present century to the nearest hour. To which are added, tables for calculating lunar and solar eclipses, by which any person capable of adding and subtracting, may ascertain the day of such eclipses in any year past, or future, as well as the most eminent astronomer. By Robert Lowther.
Lowther, Robert, active 1795.Date: 1795- Pictures
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An eruption of Mount Vesuvius at night; people watching the eruption in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by Fr. Weber after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d', active approximately 1765.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 575697i- Pictures
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Lava emerging from Mount Vesuvius at night and running towards Resina, 11 May 1771. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776, after a drawing made by him in 1771.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43677i- Books
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Ashwell, 1640 : a new almanacke for the yeare of our Lord Christ, 1640, being the bissextile, or leap-yeere : wherein are inserted many things of speciall note and necessary use, never heretofore written by any : as also a plaine and perfect rule to know the houre of the night by the moone : calculated for the towne of Onger in the county of Essex, where the pole is elevated above the horizon 52 degrees, 23 minuits / by Samuell Ashwell.
Ashwell, Samuel, active 1640-1643Date: [1640]- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of Italian and other drawings, Prints, Models, and Casts, Of the late Eminent Mr. Jonathan Richardson, Painter, Deceas'd. Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Cock, At his House in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Thursday the 22d of January, 1746-7, and the Seventeen following Nights, (sundays excepted.) The Collection may be view'd at the Place of Sale, on Monday the 10th Instant, and every Day after till the Hour of Sale, which will begin each Night at Five precisely.
Cock, Mr. (Christopher), active 1720-1749.Date: 1747]- Videos
Jess Britain's youngest sleepwalker?.
Date: 2009- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000364: Queen Elizabeth I's night dress, bottom
Date: 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/4/77Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000363: Queen Elizabeth I's night dress, top
Date: 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/4/76Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005816: The Saviour. The Separation of Day from Night.
Date: 17 October 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/48/23Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Speculum anni: or, An almanack for the year of our Lord and Saviour 1730. Being the second from bissextile or leap year, and from the world's creation 5679. Wherein contained things fitted for such a work. All the daily motions of the planets, aspects and weather, rising and setting of the sun, with the increase and descrese of the days and nights. Also the rising, southing and setting of the planets, and principal fixed stars of note, with other things too tedious here to enumerate. All which is calculated according to art, and referrd'd to the ancient and renown city of London, where the Pole Artick is elevated above the horizon 51 ̊32' serving all the middle counties of England, and without sensible error the whole kingdom. By Thomas Lane, student in the Celestial Sciences.
Lane, Thomas, active 1730.Date: 1730