Fright in the night - Bildbanksillustration

A Victorian couple alarmed by a sound in the night. The man grabs his firearm and looks out of the window while the woman stays in bed, looking scared. From a bound volume of copies of “Punch Almanack” for 1865-79. Punch was a British magazine newspaper founded in 1841, famous for its humorous and satirical cartoons which were created by some of the foremost illustrators of the day: the Almanack was a supplement.