A XIXth century very famous french illustrator, Gustave Doré, has sketched this typical policeman lantern. The sketch is called "the bull's eye" and it appears in a 1872's book : "London, a pilgrimage" ( available at this link :http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k10470488/f15.image.r=.langFR ). The sketch itself appears in those pictures :
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British Police Lanterns
in Great Britain: Mervyn Mitton's British & Colonial Police Forces
Posted · Edited by bistrot
A XIXth century very famous french illustrator, Gustave Doré, has sketched this typical policeman lantern. The sketch is called "the bull's eye" and it appears in a 1872's book : "London, a pilgrimage" ( available at this link :http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k10470488/f15.image.r=.langFR ). The sketch itself appears in those pictures :
while the book's pages can be read at those links :
Edit :
A clearer image can be found here : http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/skilton/illustr/Dore145.html
And the book can be viewed (partially) on google books :
http://books.google.fr/books?id=AjyC4dv_T9AC&lpg=PA172&hl=en&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q&f=false