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by **Tonyblack** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:24 pm

By the way - did you know that Rembrandt included himself in the painting? He's roughly in position number 9 where Kidby put Kirby.

by **Dotsie** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:04 pm

I think 14 will be Dai Dickens (did I remember his name right?)

by **Tonyblack** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:27 pm

Dotsie wrote:I think 14 will be Dai Dickens (did I remember his name right?)

Yep, I'd agree with that.

by **Jdopus** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:30 am

Ahh, so it's based off a Rembrandt painting? That explains a lot, I often wondered why they chose that particular cover rather than something like a scene in the novel, that would explain it.
And yes, I've actually just noticed that Findthee is carrying his cane in the picture, so it must be him

by **Tonyblack** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:42 am

The Rembrandt painting is actually called The Night Watch (only in Dutch of course De Nachtwacht).

Here's a Wiki about the painting.

by **SapphireForgeCat** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:08 am

Didn't Terry Pratchett rename the book to 'Nightwatch' when he saw Paul Kidby's cover design for it?

by **Tonyblack** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:02 am

SapphireForgeCat wrote:Didn't Terry Pratchett rename the book to 'Nightwatch' when he saw Paul Kidby's cover design for it?

I've not heard that, but you could well be right.

by **Tonyblack** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:06 am

This is from the L Space annotation for Night Watch:

+ [title] Night Watch

The working title for this book was The Nature of the Beast, but this was discarded when Frances Fyfield published a book with exactly that title in the UK in late 2001.

by **RAY THE RED** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:06 pm

to the best of my knowledge i got
1 henry the hampster
4 carcer
6 sweeper/lu tze
7 vetinari
8 reg shoe
13 horace nancyball
14 Dai dickens
15 ned coates (i think)
16 findthee swing
18 Nobby nobbs
19 Billy wiglet
20 Old vimes
21 fred colon
22 Young vimes
23 snouty

by **Tonyblack** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:10 pm

by **Tonyblack** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:14 pm

Nice one Ray! Like to take a guess at number 5? :wink:

by **TheMole** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:22 am

well, let´s see (I´ll be guessing, I didn´t read previous posts :wink:

1 - Henry the Hamster
4 - Carcer
5 - Mossy Lawn
6 - Lu-Tze
7 - Vetinari
8 - Reg Shoe
12 - Snouter?
13 - Nancyball?
16 - Findthee Swing
18 - Nobby
19 - Wiglet?
20 - real Vimes
22 - young Vimes

by **Tonyblack** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:07 am

I'm pretty sure that 23 is Snouty as he has a key hanging from his belt. 12 is possibly Fred Colon?

by **TheMole** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:56 pm

oh, I didn´t notice the keys...about No 12, I think he cannot be identified without doubt...but Fred is possible

PS: by the way - correct is Dickins, not Dickens

by **Tonyblack** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:20 pm

Dai Dickins is correct I think. I haven't got my copy handy at the moment. The moustache gives him away in the picture I think.

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