Wake Collection

Yachting at Cowes
In the foaming wake of a racing cutter Date: 1914

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

London Fire Brigade fireboat Massey Shaw underway
The Massey Shaw fireboat nearing her berth at Blackfriars on the Victoria Embankment, London

Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet, KCB, CMG
Vintage 19th century photograph: captioned as Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet, KCB, CMG (6 January 1802 - 12 February 1876) was Surveyor of the Navy from 1848 to 1861

Claude Grahame-Whites Henry Farman Wake Up England Wat?
Claude Grahame-Whites Henry Farman Wake Up England Waterplane / Seaplane Arriving at Paston Place Beach Brighton, UK on 14 August 1912 Date: 1921

A knocker up, Victorian period

RAF sea plane, WW2
RAF sea plane Date: circa 1941

Stanislaw Oswiecim at the body of Anna Oswiecim, 1888
Stanislaw Wojciech Bergman (1862-1930). Polish painter. Stanislaw Oswiecim at the body of Anna Oswiecim, 1888. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland

McDonnell F-101B Voodoo 57-0351
Canadian Armed Forces - McDonnell F-101B-90-MC Voodoo 101029 (msn 529), on arrival at RCAF Chatham, New Brunswick, for 416 Squadron CAF

The Emperor Napoleon lying in state
The late Emperor Napoleon III of France (1808-1873)lying in state at Camden Place, Chislehurst. January 1873

The Mourning of Laszlo Hunyadi by Viktor Madarasz
Viktor Madarasz (1840-1917). The Mourning of Laszlo Hunyadi. 1859. Hungarian National Gallery. Budapest. Hungary

Greek art. 8th century B. C. Terracotta funerary krater. Metr
Greek art. 8th century B.C. Terracotta funerary krater dated between 750 and 735 depicting the deceased lying and surrounded by his family. At the bottom, a procession of chariots and foot soldiers

THE DEATH OF HEREWARD
HEREWARD THE WAKE And with a shout of Torfrida, which made the Bruneswald ring, he hurled the shield full in the Breton's face and fell forward, dead'. Date: 1072

ENGLISH FUNERAL PICART
Part of the custom of death in England in the Georgian period. The corpse dressed in a shroud & laid-out in a body- shaped coffin. Mourners take sprigs of Rosemary. Date: 1737

FARIES & DEAD CHILD 1922
They stole little Bridget, ...they thought that she was fast asleep, but was dead with sorrow...they have kept her ever since, watching till she wake... Date: 1922

IRISH WAKE
An Irish Wake - relatives and friends gather round the deathbed, grieving or mourning in various degrees, while the pigs and poultry carry on as usual. Date: 1882

BROWNING / EVELYN HOPE
EVELYN HOPE (from Dramatis personae') Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead... you will wake, & remember, & understand... Date: First published: 1855

FAIRIES & DEAD CHILD
They stole little Bridget...They thought that she was fast asleep, But she was dead with sorrow... They have kept her ever since, Watching till she wake... Date: 1886

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

The dancer Tilly Losch, 1930 Date: 1930

The London ballroom dancers Jean Barry and David Fitzgibbon, 1930 who made a big hit in Wake up Dream on Broadway Date: 1930

Portrait of the dancer Tilly Losch, appearing on Broadway in C. B. Cochrans Wake up and Dream, 1930 Date: 1930

Family offering a candle at the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Extremadura, Spain. A man holds a baby, while a woman in veil kneels in prayer with a rosary. Monastery of Santa Maria of Guadalupe

Funeral wake among the Luanda people of Angola. Mourners wail as visitors arrive to view the corpse in a hut, the women wearing fragrant leaves on their heads

Cuckow-pint or wake robin, Arum maculatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Wake robin or stinking benjamin, Trillium erectum (rhomboidal trillium, Trillium rhomboideum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Breakfast for a soldier on home leave, WW1 -- should I wake him? 1917

London Fire Brigade fireboat Massey Shaw underway
The Massey Shaw fireboat nearing her berth at Blackfriars on the Victoria Embankment, London. Date: 1938

Curtis British Entomology Plate 607
Lepidoptera: Incurvaria masculella (Feathered Diamond-back) [Plant: Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies, Wake Robin))] Date: 1824-39

Normans attacking Hereward the Wakes refuge
Hereward the Wake, also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile (1035-1072) - an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England

SLEEPWALKER ON ROOF 1870
Near Newmarket, England, a sleepwalker who has climbed onto the roof in his nightshirt is lassooed by his brother in case he should wake and fall Date: 1870

View of Seattle, USA, from a ferry crossing Elliott Bay
Passengers admire the view of Seattle, USA, from a ferry crossing Elliott Bay, Puget Sound. Date: circa 1990

Kashmir, Srinagar. Boatman asleep in shade on back of boat
Kashmir, Srinagar. A lazy boatman asleep in shade on back of a boat carrying animal fodder Date: 1986

Sleeping Kashmir boatman
A man asleep in the stern of a punt, or shikara, loaded with cattle fodder. The punt floats though the river weeds and only the mans legs and feet are visible Date: 1986

Speedboat off prom Eastbourne
A small speed boat leaves a white wake as it passes below Eastbourne pier, Sussex. Two young male holidaymakers look down on it. First published The Sunday Times Date: circa 1991

What are the wild wave saying? Liar
What are the wild wave saying? (" Liar" ) Date: circa 1910s

Recruitment poster, Wake Up America!, WW1
First World War recruitment poster, Wake Up America! Civilization Calls Every Man Woman and Child! Showing an allegorical female figure in a stars and stripes costume

Medieval Debauchery
HEREWARD THE WAKE Surrounded by his drunken men, Hereward (far right) sees Martin Lightfoot departing (far left) with the letter and realises that he must be stopped

Jesus sleeping awakened and calms the storm - Matthew 8. circa 1688

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - waking up. circa 1910s

D-Day Invasion off Normandy, France, WW2
D-Day Invasion off Normandy, France, June 1944. 1944

U. S. Marine Corps who fought at Wake Island
Group photo of the 47th Platoon of the U.S. Marine Corps, who defended America during the Japanese naval and air attacks on Wake Island in December 1941

Greek art. Funerary stele depicting a potter. Early 6th cent
Greek art. Archaic period. Funerary stele depicting a potter. Early 6th century B.C. Polychromed. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Music cover, Finnigans Wake, Comic Irish Song, sung by Dan Bryant. 1850s

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

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

Canadian native funeral ceremony.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

LFB fireboat AFB2, River Thames, Pool of London
LFB fireboat AFB2 on the River Thames, Pool of London, with Tower Bridge in the distance

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