Here the Bellman is Father Time ringing his bell.
The image on the lower right side is an allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610, by an unknown painter) of Queen Elizabeth I at old age together with the allegories of Death and of Father Time.
The image on the upper right side is a detail from that painting. It shows the head of Father Time in mirror view.
The image on the left side is a depiction of the Bellman from Henry Holiday’s front cover illustration (inset) to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1876).
2018-10-11, updated: 2025-12-12