Sleep Collection

Railway Sleeper - Euston Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Scottish football fan at Euston Station awaiting his return train back north of the border. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

King Duncan I of Scotland (reigned 1034-1040). He is thought to have died in battle, though in Shakespeares play he is murdered in his sleep by Macbeth

The Railway Sleeper
An exhausted conscript on Nation Service sleeps at Darlington Railway Station en rout to or from a posting to the Northern military base at Catterick, York. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

sleeping on Blackpool prom
An elderly couple lie back on the wrought iron seats on Blackpool Pier for a snooze. The beach and Blackpool Tower are in the background. Date: circa 1970

Railway Sleeper - Crewe Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing railway porter at Crewe Station. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Hush-A-Bye, Baby by Lawson Wood
A colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing a monkey using her tail to rock her baby to sleep

Medea and the Fleece
Medea, daughter of Aeetes king of Colchis who possesses the Golden Fleece, uses magic to send the guardian dragons to sleep, enabling her lover Jason to steal the Fleece

Railway Sleeper - Melton Mowbray Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Hunstman taking a nap with his foxhound at Melton Mowbray Station! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Sleeping Beauty ballet, reawakening scene
While the King and Queen sleep, Prince Charming, with the blessing of the Lilac Fairy, bends to kiss the Sleeping Princess and thereby awaken her

Unhappy Marriage
Dachshunds in Bed a Marriage of Convenience

Hypnos, God of Sleep
HYPNOS is the Greek god of sleep, known as SOMNUS to the Romans; he lives in a cave in the Cimmerian country where the sun never shines

Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger by Arthur Rackham
The crucial moment in the story of Sleeping Beauty when Beauty pricks her finger on a spinning wheel thus sending her to sleep for a number of years

Strange Incense by Reginald Higgins
A rather sinister looking faun watches over a woman sleeping, unaware, in a deckchair

Cymbeline - title page - Iachimo emerges from the trunk as Imogen sleeps. 1862

Home of a Spitalfields weaver
Interior of a Huguenot silk weavers home in Spitalfields, London, showing the weaver hard at work at his loom

His Masters Vice
Bonzo asleep with his head in a glass after helping himself to the Masters drinks supply. Date: circa 1922

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
Princess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty, pictured in a perfect pose as she sleeps for a hundred years after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel

My Second Sermon
The second of two sentimental pictures by the pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (1829-1896)

Sleeping B / Lefler / Urban
The Prince wakes Sleeping Beauty from her sleep with a kiss

Salvation Army Womens Night Shelter, East London
The dormitory of the Salvation Army night shelter for women, opened in 1889 at 194 Hanbury Street, Whitechapel in the East End of London

Allenburys Diet advert, the predigested nightcap for a good nights sleep

Goya (1746-1828). Spanish painter and printmaker. Los Capric
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish painter and printmaker. Los Caprichos. Donde va mama? (Where are you going mum?). Number 65. Aquatint. 1799. Plate 43. Reproduction by M. Segui i Riera

Woman with spinning wheel, Isle of Harris, Scotland
On the Isle of Harris, Scotland, a woman uses an elegant old spinning wheel to make Harris tweed, while her dog sleeps beside her. Date: 1920s

Outdoor Baby Cage
A handy baby cage, which can easily be fitted outside the window of even a modest flat. The baby can sleep soundly in the fresh air while the mother relaxes indoors... Date: 1930s

Large male lion sleeping. A study in pencil and conte crayon by Raymond Sheppard

Studdys Nightmare by George Studdy
Bonzo and Co. get their own back on the artist, after the Christmas pudding

Fairy Tales of Summer - Sleeping Beauty by Pauline Baynes
Sleeping Beauty by Pauline Baynes, one of a four illustrations of a fairy tale to reflect each season

Bretons in Bed
Two Breton ladies settle in for a good nights sleep in these enclosed beds(lits- clos)

Scene from Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Act II, Scene ii), in which Puck drops a love potion into the sleeping Titanias eyes

The Linesman Who Snored at Wimbledon
A linesman disrupts play at Wimbledon by letting out a loud snore mid-point. 1928

Cartoon, Queen Victorias Christmas, A Vision (based on Dickens story, A Christmas Carol)

Two frogs with insect on a greetings card
Two frogs with an insect on a greetings card -- Happy be thy dreams. Date: circa 1890s

Endpaper design by Cecil Aldin, Mac, the story of a white Scots terrier from the Highlands. Date: 1912

Labour Candidates
Labour candidates. - A postcard with a dual meaning, both a satire on potential Labour Party MPs and three down and out men all of whom are good candidates as labourers. Date: circa 1900s

Garden of Sleep at Cromer, Norfolk
The Garden of Sleep at Cromer, Norfolk - The Church Tower of St Michael and All Angels at Sidestrand. The Tower eventually fell over the eroding cliffs in 1915/16

Railway Sleeper - Marylebone Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing post young gentleman propped up against a bollard at Marylebone Station after a wild Christmas party! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Imperial Airways poster by John Hassall
Humorous poster for Imperial Airways showing proof of their slogan, " Safety then Comfort"

Rinso Advert
RINSO washes while you sleep (snore !) - soak the clothes, thats all. (Made by Hudson s)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears, by Muriel Baines
Illustration, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, by Muriel Baines Date: 20th century

Sleeping pensioners, Norfolk beach
An elderly couple sit in the shelter of a wooden groyne on a beach near Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, and snooze soundly. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882). Italian military and politic
Giuseppe Garibaldi.1807-1882. Italian military and political. Garibaldis rest after the battle. 1860. On the right, watching the militar, Alexandre Dumas. Risorgimento Museum. Turin. Italy

Rock a Bye Baby by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a charming sun hat, sits in a hammock and rocks her doll to sleep

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

The Humorist Easter Number 1938
The Humorist Easter Number front cover illustrated by William Heath Robinson featuring two exhausted cyclists sleeping off a picnic lunch, unaware that somebody is riding away on their tandem bicycle

For Healths Sake
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing two cheeky monkey pilfering fruit from a sleeping orang utan, Gran pop. Title is For Healths Sake Take Things Quietly

COURBET, Gustave (1819-1877). The Sleepers, or Sleep. Realism. Oil on canvas

Girl rocking Teddy to sleep

Wotan at the Pyre
Wotan bids farewell to his daughter Brunnhilde as she sleeps a magic sleep surrounded by a magic fire which only a true hero can penetrate (Sigfried does it !)

Vagrants asleep in Green Park, Central London
During their daytime opening hours, Londons parks provided a pleasant place for the citys tramps and vagrants to sleep. Green Park, shown here, was typical

Getting out of Bed 1950S
Pretty brunette, with arching eyebrows, climbs out of bed upon waking. Her bedtime reading lies on the floor next to her bed

Girl asleep in bed on a Christmas card with Santa Claus appearing at the window. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Anthropomorphic terracotta sarcophagus. From Ghar
Anthropomorphic terracotta sarcophagus. Found in Ghar Barka, on the outskirts of Rabat (Malta). 6th century BC. Detail. National Museum of Archaeology. Valletta. Malta.

Neolithic Period. The Sleeping Lady. Clay statuette
Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500 BC). The Sleeping Lady. Clay statuette found in a burial chamber in the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni, Malta. Dated ca. 3000 BC

Sleeping Silenus statue. 1st century AD. Lisbon
Statue of a sleeping Silenus. Marble. 57 AD. Lisbon. National Archaeology Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

WW1 - British soldiers sleeping in shell holes. ' 'Tommy' finds shell holes comfortable to sleep in. Date: 1916

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). A Russian guard corp. Engraving. La Guerra de Oriente (The Russo-Turkish War). Volume II. 1877.

Sleepy Head
Fairy blowing poppy seeds to induce sleep. Artist: Anne Anderson Date: circa 1917

Wary mice above a cat pretending to sleep in a barn. Cat and the mice. Illustration of a fable by Greek author Aesop

A cock in a tree outwits a fox, while a dog sleeps
A cock in a tree outwits a cunning fox, while a dog sleeps in a hollow. Dog, cock and fox.Illustration of a fable by Greek author Aesop

A ship's carpenter's mate near a saw pit in a Brazil jungle
Royal Navy ship's carpenter's mate Barney Bryan sleeping next to a saw pit in a Brazilian jungle. He sits on the edge of the pit as a goat prepares to butt him

Mask symbolizing sleep with opium poppies and swans
Mask symbolizing sleep. With pileus or hat with drooping opium poppies, and two swans (signifying death) on the shoulders. In carnelian. Maschera simbolica. In corniola

The boat bed at Brodsworth Hall, Doncaster, England. Photographed in 1989 with full permission of then owners Ron and Pam Williams in 1989 Date: 1989

Woman sleeping on deck chair on Tenby Beach, Wales
A woman holidaymaker wearing a floppy sun hat sleeps in a deck chair behind a windbreak on the sandy beach at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. A man lies on an inflatable sunbed next to her

Comic postcard, Sleeping man in cemetery with policeman Date: 20th century

Farmers and hunters in ancient Germanic peoples. Hunters wear short woven tunics, the farmers are naked apart from a short cape. The farmers hold a hoe and jug. From Philipp Kluvers Germania Antiqua

An Interview with Consul the Chimpanzee
Sketches of Consul, the celebrity chimpanzee known as the man monkey appearing at the Hippodrome in 1903

What a War! - Suits me, I dunno as I ll ever go back to Railings! - humorous comment
What a War! - " Suits me, I dunno as I ll ever go back to Railings!" - humorous comment on the wartime appropriation of railings for use as raw material in the war effort. Date: circa 1941

A young man sits on a park bench in Mahon, Menorca, Spain. He has a black bag on his lap and he turns to lean on the back of the bench to cover his face and rest his head on his arms

The Dalkey Rowing Club, Coliemore Harbour, Dalkey
A couple fall asleep on the roof of a boathouse at the Dalkey Rowing Club, Coliemore Harbour, Dalkey, near Dublin, Ireland Date: 1992

Small children take a nap during the afternoon, Sri Lanka
Two nuns watch as small children take a nap during the heat of the afternoon at a school run by the The Good Shepherd Sisters, in Sri Lanka Date: 1995

Man snoozing outside his house in Stewart Street, Barrow in
A male resident of Stewart Street, Barrow in Furness, lies on the pavement with his head on his own doorstep to sleep off his lunch in the sunshine

Old lady asleep with paperback book
An old lady falls asleep outdoors with her Agatha Christie who-done-it paperback book. Herefordshire, England Date: circa 1970

Old man on hospital bed, Jaipur
An old man squats on his bed and snoozes in a hospital in Jaipur, India Date: 1987

Oxen taking compressed wool to railway station, NSW, Australia

Arab boy resting with his donkey
Arab Boy resting with his donkey Date: 1898

Don Ramiro's dream. The King of Asturias Ramiro I
Don Ramiro's dream. Illustration that represents one of the moments before the Battle of Clavijo (May 23, 844)

The Queen gave him a glass of the richest cordial
Illustration, The Queen gave him a glass of the richest cordial, the Wishing Cup, by Muriel Baines Date: 20th century

Cartoon, The Sleeping Palace (of Westminster)
Political cartoon, The Sleeping Palace (of Westminster), at the end of a long and weary House of Commons session - a parody of a painting by Burne-Jones, The Garden Court Date: 1891

The Tale of Dick Whittington
Dick Whittington - Dick lying in the doorway of the house of a kindly merchant (2 of 12) Date: circa 1900

Simple Coward's Tale
A comic strip style of illustrations which tell the story of a coward who before getting into bed at night, he meticulously checks under the bed, in the wardrobe

Reveil
This illustration portrays a young woman lying on her front in bed, having just awakened from sleep. Date: circa 1901

Music cover, A Dream of the Chrystal Palace, comic song written by John Labern, sung by Jack J W Sharp at Vauxhall Gardens, London, arranged for the pianoforte by W Wilson Date: circa 1851

Music cover, Dreaming, or I Thought I Was There, words by John P Harrington, composed by George Le Brunn, sung by Charles Godfrey Date: 19th century

Diseases of the Brain, Dreams, Delusions, Hallucinations and Nightmares Date: 1888

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