Awake Collection

A glamorous female model with her trusty Goblin Teasmade
A stylish female model wakes up fresh-faced and ready now to face the day thanks to a few sips from a hearty brew prepared by her faithful bedside Goblin Teasmade. How Delicious! Date: 1960s

Princess and the Pea
I have scarcely closed my eyes all night, complains the princess, proving that she is a REAL princess, so sensitive that single a pea beneath her mattress keeps her awake

Waiting For Santa Claus, by Jessie Willcox Smith
A colour illustration of two young children trying to keep awake for Santa Clauss visit

WW1 - The British Lion wide awake and ready for action
WW1 era postcard sent in December 1914 - By this stage, the British Lion (sat on a large Union flag was " wide awake" and ready for action. Date: 1914

Canadians Awake, Our Land's at Stake! - WW2 Canadian envelope Date: 1941

WW2 Birthday Card, Keep Smiling!
A WW2 birthday greeings card, Blessed are they who do not keep awake at night - But dream of happier times ahead! The image portrays a content old man asleep in bed

Cyril Maude, actor manager, as Rip van Winkle
Cyril Maude, actor manager (1862-1951), as Rip van Winkle, theatrical portrait in rustic costume, with long beard and cooking pot

Caricature illustration of bedroom scene, by G E Studdy, with person being woken by alarm clock, steam, and fist banging a pan

Music cover, Lying Awake at Night, song, words and music by Hugh Bayly Date: 1926

Egyptian Art. Temple of Seti I at Abydos. Resurrection of Os
Egyptian Art. Temple of Seti I at Abydos. Relief depicting the resurrection of Osiris. Her sister and wife Isis holds his head and the God Sokar assist him while he is awakening. 19th Dynasty. C

Christmas postcard, Man playing bugle in the street - Christians Awake Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple and baby in bed with gas masks, WW2 - calling up notice Date: 1940s

Advert for Luvisca pyjamas by Lawson Wood 1931
Delightful advertisement by Lawson Wood for Luvisca pyjamas, showing a Scottish father playing the bagpipes in order to rock a concerned looking baby to sleep. Date: 1931

Latest Revolt in Art: New French School at Grafton Gallery
The Latest Revolt in Art: The New French School at the Grafton Gallery. This school represents a reaction against Impressionism

Woman with snoring husband
A woman sits up in bed with cotton wool in her ears, kept awake by her snoring husband. Date: 1960s

Daniel in the lions den but one lion at least looks awake. Date: circa late 19th century

WW1 - Joan of Arc inspiring French forces to deeds of valour in adversity. Date: circa 1915

Red Jacket Monument, Buffalo, New York State, USA
Red Jacket Monument, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York State, USA. Known as Otetiani as a young man and Sagoyewatha (Keeper Awake) Sa-go-ye-wa-tha

Woman with snoring husband
A woman sits up in bed with cotton wool in her ears, kept awake by her snoring husband. Date: 1960s

Two robins alarmed by a cat on a Christmas card. Date: early 20th century

D annunzio Pro-War
GABRIELE D ANNUNZIO Italian writer, propagandising in Rome in favour of Italys entry into World War One Let Rome awake... as an ally against barbarism ! Date: 1863 - 1938

LITTLE WIDE AWAKE BOOK
Cover of Little Wide Awake, possibly illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Date: 1880

Cartoon, Insomnia, WW1
Cartoon, Insomnia. A woman sits up in bed, thinking about how she appreciates her husband much more because hes home on leave from the army. Date: 1915

Sleepy owl wakes up and the mice run away. Date: circa 1933

Mongrel puppy howling wakes up his master, who comes to investigate. Date: 1914

The flowers awake
The flowers of the garden awake after their long winter sleep. Date: 1895

Duck-billed platypus and meadow jumping mouse.. Duck-billed platypus 1, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, skull 2, and meadow jumping mouse, Zapus hudonius, awake 1 and hibernating 2

Our Wide-Awake Navy by Charles Robinson, WW1
The Perils of a submarine duty off Folkestone. An officer manning a submarine off the British coast is distracted by the attentions of several bathing beauties during the First World War. Date: 1915

The Awakening by Muriel Dawson -- a baby wakes up and stretches. Date: 1929

Master Quack the duckling meets two owls
An Afternoon Call -- Master Quack the duckling wakes up two owls, who find him rude and attack him. Date: 1912

Master Quack the duckling thrown into the air
Wide Awake -- Joey the tortoise, annoyed by Master Quack the ducklings orders, rears up and throws him off his back. Date: 1912

Nursery Rhymes -- bull and dog, cockerel
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations, showing a bull tossing an unfortunate dog into the air, and a cock crowing at sunrise, waking all the farmyard animals. Date: early 20th century

Scotsman shocked by expensive of the Worlds Fair in Chicago
The Chicago Exhibition McPherson - " Four Dollars for a bed! The extravangance. I canna sleep for thinking o t." Date: 1893

Sleeping Beauty Awakened

Satan in Hell
Satan, in Hell, addresses his legions - Awake ! Arise ! or be for ever fallen !

The Truth About Grown-Ups by William Heath Robinson
A baby, who should really be fast asleep in his cot, instead regales a gathered group of elves and pixies in his bedroom with tall tales about the deeds of his parents

Land Girls Awake
Happy Land Girls stretching their arms out in their beds as they awake! Date: early 1940s

CHRISTIANS AWAKE MSS
The original manuscript of the popular English hymn Christians Awake composed by John Byrom as a Christmas present for his daughter, Dolly. Date: 1745

Two sparrows perched on a branch at night
Two sparrows, Jack and Jennie, perched on a branch at night. Jennie is wide awake, worrying about where they should build their nest. Date: 1937

JH Hartley. The sleeping beauty
The Sleeping Beauty -- the Prince is about to kiss the Princess to wake her up. 20th century

Owl and Grasshopper

Sleepwalking Lady
A sleepwalking female walks on the narrow parapet of her home, where she would never dare go when awake. Why sleepwalkers love heights is not understood. Date: 1907

The Sand Fairy / Jacobs
A small girl is either woken up, or helped with her insomnia by a sand fairy who appears in her dormitory unobserved by anyone else

Young Girl-Still Sleepy
Still Sleepy! A mother checks on her tired little daughter

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