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Night Watch or The Night Watch is the common name of the most famous painting by Rembrandt, more properly titled The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq.
The painting depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch.
For much of its existence, the painting was coated with a dark varnish which gave the incorrect impression that it depicted a night scene, leading to the name by which it is commonly known.
It is on display in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Night Watch is the 29th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in 2002. The hero of the novel is Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch.
The cover illustration of the British edition, by Paul Kidby, is a parody of Rembrandt's painting.
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On the morning of the 30th anniversary of the death of Vimes' hero - John Keel, the copper who taught him all he knows about being a copper - Vimes is caught in a magical explosion while pursuing a serial killer across the roof of Unseen University. Both Vimes and the escaping criminal are thrown 30 years back in time, where the criminal murders John Keel and Vimes is forced to become the copper who taught him all he knows...
Nightwatch is also the name of a fictional paramilitary intelligence organization in the science fiction drama Babylon 5.