18th Century Lanterns
The following images are all taken from 18th-century paintings and drawings, or from a museum collection. I have tried to list the source for each item.
Detail, "The Watchman, night scene with a guard..." after David Teniers the Younger, 1720-25, England. British Museum collections, #1874.0808.1927.
Detail, "Night (The Four Times of Day), William Hogarth, 1738. MET collection, Accession #91.1.94
Detail, "The Idle Prentice Betrayed by his Whore...", William Hogarth, 1747, England. Public domain
"Mr. Turbutt in the Character of Sosia", 1740, London. British Museum, item #1902.1011.3525.
Detail, "The Double Surprise", after Gerard Dou, 1770, British Museum, #1935,0522.1.116.
Detail, "Hob Carrying Mr. Friendly's Letter to Mrs. Flora", by Claude Dubosc, after John Laquerre, 1745. British Museum, #1877,1013.924.
18th Century lantern, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Accession #28.28.
18th century lantern, Smithsonian Institution, American History Museum, ID#2002.0160.04.
American Lantern, 1770, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession #34.100.188
Detail "The anatomist overtaken by hte watch...", 1773, by William Austin, London. From Lewis Walpole Collection, call number 773.05.01.08
Detail, "The Vicar and Moses", 1782, Thomas Colley. British Museum, #1872.1012.4907.
Detail, "The Social Pinch", by IW Kay 1789, Edinburgh. Yale Library 550600.
Detail, "Provincial Wit", Isaac Cruikshank, London, 1797. Lewis Walpole Library, Call # 797.03.04.03.
Detail, "A gown metamorphose'd into a Ghost!!", 1797, Isaac Cruikshank, London. Lewis Walpole Library, call # 797.02.11.02
Italian 18th Century Hand Lantern, Iron and brass, V&A Museum.
Hand Lantern from The Encyclopedia of Sciences, Arts and Trades" Diderot, 1768.
"The Westminster Canvass", 1784, London. By William Dent. Lewis Walpole Library, #947465
"Morning Preparation", by H. Humphrey, 1785, London. Lewis Walpole Library, #551953.
"Diogenes in Search of an Honest Man", London, 1787. Lewis Walpole Library.
Detail, "Mad Tom's first practical essay on the rights of man." S.W. Fores, London, 1792. Yale Library, #550835.
Detail "The Royal Extenguisher...", 1795, London. Yale Library, #976851.
Detail, "Search-night, or State-watchmen mistaking honest men...", H. Humphrey, 1798. Yale Library, #950643.
Paris Strteet Cries. 1737-1742. Source??