Sleeping Collection (page 15)

The Corn Fairies

Teddy bears on the beach

Boy in bed

Sleeping Beauty Awakened

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1933
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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

Arab boy with donkey, Egypt
An Arab boy in Egypt, sleeping at the side of his donkey. Date: 20th century

Sea Cadets in hammocks on a barge, Walton, Essex
Four sea cadets in hammocks under the watchful eye of an officer who was also the owner of The British King, a barge moored at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1960

Vampire bats attack sleepers
Three sleeping men attacked by vampire bats. Date: C.1895

Man sleeping
A nap by the sea at Borstahusen, Landskrona, Sweden, 1967 Date: 1967

Girl with her toys - asleep
A young girl asleep on a large white pillow or cushion in her garden, surrounded by her dolls and toys. Painting by a 14-year-old student at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. Date: circa 1920

Royal wedding 1986 - sleeping spectator
A spectator, worn out by the effort of watching the royal wedding in London in July 1986, takes the opportunity to snatch forty winks on a park bench

A morning concert
Wife: " George! George! You are not in church!" A husband dozes off in the front row during a morning concert, to the despair of his wife. Date: 1865

Farmyard Dogs
Dogs sleeping in a Devon (England) farmyard, happy to be beside the farmer, hammering in his outbuilding. Date: early 1930s

Illustration with music, Sleeping, showing a young mother with her baby asleep on her lap. first published 1881

Illustration with music, Tired, showing a young girl sleeping on the grass. first published 1881

Switzerland - Pigs take a nap after lunch
Switzerland - A group of pigs take a nap after lunch on a Swiss hillside farm Date: circa 1910s

Our Local Express (2 / 2)
A satirical look at an express train service (2/2 - see 10425389). 1907

A lady relaxing with her dogs
A colour illustration showing a lady distracted from her book by her sleeping dogs

Little girl asleep, dreaming of her soldier father
A little girl asleep in an armchair, dreaming of her soldier father who is away fighting in the First World War. The caption is written in English and French. 1915

Hunter trampled by elephant, Sri Lanka
Caught at Last -- a hunter being trampled by an elephant in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 1854

Madame Anna Marie Tussaud waxwork (1761-1850) with the model of Sleeping Beauty c. 1850

A charm against Fairies by M. Reed
A rather alarming illustration (at least to any new parents) depicting a baby being spirited away by fairies who leave a wizened changeling of their race in its place while its mother sleeps

The cat that lead a dogs life
Two toddlers stroking a cat. Date: 1930

Advert for Vi-Spring Mattress 1931
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The Children In The Wood, by C. Lucy
A colour illustration by C. Lucy, depicting two children, a boy and a girl, curled up sleeping in a forest

Tangiers - Morocco - A Woman of the Mountains carrying her sleeping child in a sling across her shoulders and wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and very large scarf/shawl. Date: circa 1910s

Outback Camping Snooze
Bushwalkers sleeping off an 18 mile walk in the cool of the evening. Soon camp fires will be lighted and these hungry walkers will have a well- earned meal! Date: 1940s

Sleeping Lion
A lion sleeping on his side, South Africa. Date: 1960s

Jumbo Jet Bedtime Story

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

Sparrow chirping on Mrs Bobbitys window ledge
Jack Sparrow chirping on Mrs Bobbitys window ledge, wanting her to get up so that he can gather crumbs for his growing family

Illustration, To the Sun Door, showing two little girls sleeping on clouds near a bright yellow sun. 1885

The Origin of a Painter by William Mulready
A young boy traces the profile of a sleeping man from his shadow on the wall, the principle of which was used by silhouette artists. Date: 1828

Little girl looking after a sick baby
A little girl looking after her sick baby brother. She has given him some medicine and now hes asleep in his cradle. She hopes that when he wakes up he will be better again. 1897

German prisoner of war camp, a subalterns sketches
Sketch by Lieut. J. F. Watton, showing a British officer asleep in a bunk inside the prisoner of war camp Oflag VII. C/H. It is one of several pictures sketched by Watton

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