Wake Collection

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

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

Midsummer Nights Dream
Act II, Scene II Oberon places a spell on Titania: " What thous seest when thou dost wake/Do it for thy true-love take, "

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

Christmas postcard, two little girls - Wake up, Molly! he's been! Date: circa 1930s

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the 1st Quatrain. Wake! For the Sun behind yon Eastern height has chased the Session of the Stars from Night. Date: 1909

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Siege of Paris (19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871). Guard corp on the walls of Paris. Engraving by Laporta

Christmas Morning
A young girl and her doll wake up to find presents and a snowy scene outside. Date: circa 1950

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

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

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

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

Comic postcard, Couple woken up in the middle of the night Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy praying by his bed Date: 20th century

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

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

Cuckow-pint or wake robin, Arum maculatum

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

Recruitment poster, Wake Up America!, WW1
First World War recruitment poster, Wake Up America! Civilization Calls Every Man Woman and Child

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

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

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

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

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

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

German World War One commemorative cup and saucer celebrating a Silver Wedding on the 5th March 1914. From your beloved son, Heinrich, Machine Gun Company of Infantry Regiment, Karl (7 Brig) No

The Awakening by Muriel Dawson -- a baby wakes up and stretches. Date: 1929

Master Quack the duckling meets two owls
An Afternoon Call -- Master Quack the duckling wakes up two owls, who find him rude and attack him. Date: 1912

Nursery Rhymes -- bull and dog, cockerel
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations, showing a bull tossing an unfortunate dog into the air, and a cock crowing at sunrise, waking all the farmyard animals. Date: early 20th century

Wake-up call
An early morning wake up call at a naval college. A trumpet sounds and two big drums are banged in order to get the recruits out of their sleeping hammocks. Date: 1885

William Wake
WILLIAM WAKE English churchman, archbishop of Canterbury 1715+, Date: 1657 - 1737

Two elderly widows discuss the catering at a wake
" Did you go to Smiths burying?" " Yes, I did, an a mighty measly affair it was

Children wake to greet Santa Claus on Christmas night. All rather odd - for one the cot bed seems really rather small for these two siblings...? Date: circa 1908

Douglas A-24 Dauntless dive bomber about to bomb Wake Island on 6 October 1943. Date: 1943

Valentines card
Litle girl attempts to wake up her sweetheart and ask him to be her valentine. Date: c. 1920

A Sunday morning dream - time to wake up

Silhouette, Early to Bed, Early to Rise
Early to Bed, Early to Rise -- silhouette showing a little boy standing in front of his bed, stretching and yawning

Funeral
Wake. The widow grieves for her husband. c. 1900

Thames Estuary
In the wake of the Golden Eagle - a striking picture in the Thames Estuary, England. Date: 1950s

River Mersey
Study of a ships wake, on the River Mersey, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Date: 1960s

MEDWAY QUEEN
A study of the wake of the Medway Queen pleasure boat, en route from Chatham, Kent, to Southend, Essex, England. Date: 1950s

Austro-Hungarian fleet at sea, WW1
Ships of the Austro-Hungarian fleet at sea during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Salvo falling, Battle of the Falkland Islands, WW1
The first enemy salvo falling in the wake of HMS Invincible at the start of the Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. Date: 8 December 1914

Illustration with music, Waking, showing a little girl lying in a four-poster bed -- Wake up! the sun is shining... first published 1881

British battle fleet avoiding enemy submarines, WW1
A British battle fleet zigzagging to avoid enemy submarines during the First World War. Date: March 1915

JH Hartley. The sleeping beauty
The Sleeping Beauty -- the Prince is about to kiss the Princess to wake her up. 20th century

Plants / Trillium Cuneatum
Or T. Sessile Trinity Flower, or Wake Robin, or Wood Lily Date: 1796

Hereward the Wake
HEREWARD known as The Wake Anglo-Saxon rebel and outlaw who opposed William I, taking refuge on the Isle of Ely, the subject of romantic legends. Date: ? - 1072

Group of scouts in front of a tent
A group of eight boy scouts pose for their photo in a field, in front of a tent. One of them is holding a bugle, no doubt used to wake them all up in the morning

A Depth Charge Exploding
A ship under attack during the final conflicts of the sea war of the First World War - a depth charge explodes in the wake of a swiftly moving Royal Navy vessel

Ferry transporting railway wagons
A wonderful nightime photograph of the Suffolk Ferry departing Harwich with a load of railway wagons. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Scene on board the Refugee Ship North Britain, 1882
Engraving showing an informal scene as people wake up and get dressed; one woman is shown having her hair dressed and another is in her corset

Belgian peasant refugees
A Belgian peasant family with a dog-drawn cart, walk into Brussels after fleeing their homes in the wake of the German invasion of 1914

Saint George Returns
SAINT GEORGE St George is given a heroes welcome after vanquishing the dragon - which is dragged by a team of horses in his wake

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