LEFT This image is reprinted from The Shepherd's Calendar , published by Nicholas Le Rouge, Troyes, c1495. "Par ceste figure on peult congnoistre les heures par nuyt en la manière que s'ensuyt." 14cms square.
 
RIGHT Osbert Lancaster's neat formula for Night and Day, published by the Architectural Press in 1951, and measuring 14 x 22cms

Philip Otto Runge, The Four Times of the Day (Morning) 1803, LINE DRAWING

 

WILLIAM HOGARTH, The Four Times of the Day

MORNING

NOON

EVENING

NIGHT