Sleeping Collection (page 14)

Sleeping Fox
A sleeping fox. Date: 1930s

Sleeping Rough
A tramp (or just a homeless young man) sleeping rough on the Embankment, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Tramps under the Sphynx
Down-and-out men sleeping under the sphynx at the base of Cleopatras Needle on the Victoria Embankment, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Sleeping Nude Resting Nude
Sleeping Nude (Resting Nude) (1928). Gertler, Mark 1892-1939. Date: 1928

Nikko, Japan - Carving of a sleeping cat - Toshogu Temple Date: circa 1910s

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San goes to sleep - Goodnight! Date: circa 1905

Washington, Library of Congress Mural - Keats Endymion
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Keats Endymion - The shepherd boy asleep on Mount Latmus

Christmas postcard - Asleep at Midnight
Christmas postcard - On the Bridge at Midnight A gent (looking suspiciously like Mr Punch) passes out on Christmas Eve after a heavy evening! Date: 1907

Mozambique - Maputo - Two Rickshaw Boys take a nap Date: circa 1910s

Two women in bed, Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Anthya marila, greater scaup
Plate 229 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Doctrine Chretienne. French school. 18th century. Miniature painting in gold. Page 66. Depicting in different squares: Strength (a woman with a lion)

Auras sleeping on Hercules weapons. 1st c. Roman art. Early Empire. Sculpture on marble. SPAIN. Madrid. National Museum of Archaeology

In the cell. Costumbrism. Painting

VENETSIANOV, Aleksey Gabrilovitch (1780-1847). Sleeping Herd-Boy. Oil on canvas

Madonna and Sleeping Child by Guido Reni (1575-1642). Oval painting on copper. Baroque art. Oil on wood

Pandemonium in the farm yard. A tractor has been driven into the pond and many children rush to help

Sheltering on underground stations 1940
During the blitz of the Second World War, Londoners made uses of the underground tube stations as air raid shelters, because they felt secure. Date: 1940

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1938
Its the inside that matters most! If you are buying mattress you will, of course, buy one of the spring-interior type to-day demanded by everybody with modern ideas of comfort

Advert for Ladye Jayne slumber helmet 1934
Beauty sleep every night. Always wear a Ladye Jayne during sleep and especially after a wave-set. It will keep your hair continually in good trim

The sleeping court. Source unknown

The Story of Sleeping Beauty. From Playhour (1956)

The Corn Fairies

Teddy bears on the beach

Boy in bed

Sleeping Beauty Awakened

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1933
Unequalled for comfort, The Vi-Spring - Vibase combination. The Worlds most luxurious bed equipment. The Vi-Spring - Vibase combination is unquestionably the finest bed equipment ever made to ensure

LCC-LFB fire, 11 Richmond Avenue, Islington
Interior of a low rise sleeping area at Richmond Avenue, Islington, North London, with possible obstructed window opening and metal container by a wooden chair

Bunk beds at New Cross LFB sub-station, London, WW2
Firemen and bunk beds put up in the basement from salvaged materials, at New Cross sub-station, Monson Road, SE London. The men were getting what sleep was possible during the hectic days

Wild boar sleeping beneath bushes during autumn. Date 1720

The little man has had a busy day... Harry himself. Harry, the owner of a New York style bar in Paris pokes fun at himself in this advertisement piece

A drunk dog
One of Mrs. L. Goodwins (of All Saints Avenue, Kent, England) drunk German Shepherd (Alsatian) dogs sleeping off a heavy drinking session. Date: early 1930s

AQ Scammons The sleeping city. Date c1898

Useful gifts for Officers at the front 1914
Advert for Debenham and Freebody for a variety of clothes for the Officers in The First World War. This includes Akhaki shirts, with collar, fur waistcoats

Francis (Frank) Smyth Powell
Pencil drawing of Francis (Frank) Smyth Powell (1850-1931), one of the children of the Reverend Baden Powell and his third wife Henrietta, by the artist Carl Hartmann (1818-1857)

Soldiers asleep in railway carriage during rail strike
During the 1911 rail strike two soldiers of the South Staffordshire Regiment take a nap in one of the unused railway carriages. 1911

The Old Curiosity Shop, Nell in the shop
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphreys Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841

Saintly sweetheart in the dreams of this slumbering soldier
" The Dream" A typical English country garden, timbered house and a saintly sweetheart inhabit the dreams of this slumbering soldier

Advertisement: Mitropa Sleeping Cars
Advertisement for Mitropa Sleeping Cars. Date: 1922

British soldiers in stables billet, France, 1939
Billeting down in a thoroughly traditional manner in a French farmhouse stable, likened by The Sphere to what it might have been like to be with Marlborough in Flanders

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