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In 1880 this picture, a moonlit scene in which ferocious looking lions stalk among some ancient ruins, met with a favorable reception at the Royal Academy, where it was listed simply as "The Night Watch." The reviewer for "The Art Journal" identified the setting as a temple at Luxor. The rows of columns with bud and papyriform capitals approximate in appearance those at the mortuary temple of Ramesses II at that site. By 1884 the picture had received its present title. Extracts from a letter presumably from the artist to William T. Walters, published in the early catalogues of the collection, associated the painting with Syria and its desolated ancient cities. In 1889 the critic Alfred Mathews observed that the picture was "a sermon- an intense symbolism- of the seeming slow but always swift mutations of time in the affairs of men and nations."
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