Dozing Collection

My Second Sermon
The second of two sentimental pictures by the pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (1829-1896) showing a little girl dressed in a red cape

Advertisement for the Western Electric vacuum cleaner with a women patiently cleaning the carpet around her snoozing husband. Lets hope that cigarette falls into his lap and wakes him up. Date: c.1924

Forty Winks by C. E. Wilson
A dear old lady in a mop cap, spectacles and a tartan shawl has fallen asleep at a table in the middle of reading a newspaper and sewing a patchwork quilt

Advert, Barclay's Lager Beer, light or dark - It's thirsty work! Date: 1926

Asleep at the wheel on Channel steamer
Asleep at the wheel on board Channel steamer. Date: circa 1950s

Childrens bedtime
Two young girls and their cat dozing by the fireside. Artist: Honor Appleton Date: 1920s

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, profile of a young woman. Date: late 19th century

Goodness gracious! I must have been dozing!. Illustration shows President Taft sitting in a rocking chair, tangled in yarn from balls labeled Conservation, Rail Road Legislation, Postal Savings Tax

The Christmas Robbers by William Heath Robinson
A cheery looking cook enjoys forty winks by the kitchen fire, blissfully unaware that an army of mischievous pixies and elves are busy plundering all the Christmas food she has been baking. Date: 1924

Dormy Six by George Studdy
Bonzo and his brethren choose a precarious place in the sun for their afternoon nap. Six little puppies, among them Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy

Susi - dozing under a newspaper
Susi - dozing in the garden under a newspaper, the Pictorial. 1950s

Susi - sleepy in her basket. 1950s

Tabby kitten dozing in a basket
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten dozing in a basket in the sunshine. 1950s

Cartoon, William Gladstone asleep, with insect MPs hovering over his face -- How the Grand Old Man manages to take forty winks with a lot of pestiferous flies buzzing about him is a wonder! 1884

Old man reading, Paris
Old man reading a large book (or has he fallen asleep?), Paris. Date: 1954

Middle-aged people dozing in Eastbourne, Sussex
Middle-aged men and women dozing and sleeping in Eastbourne, Sussex. What a lovely holiday! Date: circa 1960s

Sleepy owl tickled by mice. Date: circa 1933

Little boy and his dog on a sandy beach. Date: circa 1920s

WW2 greetings card, Safety First, showing a sleeping bear with a barrage balloon on a piece of string. Date: circa 1942

Three Blind Mice by George Studdy
Three little mice, somewhat the worse for wear having polished off a glass of wine at an empty restaurant table. Date: 1915

Social Co-operative, Leningrad
A Leningrad Socil Co-operative centre from the 1920s with the slogan on one wall that reads He who is not abel to rest is he who is not able to work. Date: 1927 - 1928

Kept in Suspense
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Children / Water 1889
A little girl asleep in a boat on the water

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