Waking Collection

ROSE TEA SET
What could be nicer than waking up to a breakfast tray of dainty china - a Rose tea set - teapot, cups, saucers, milk jug and sugar bowl? Date: 1930s

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

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

WW2 Peter The Pilot
This illustration shows Peter waking from his dream, only to be met by his heroic father who has been away, serving the Royal Air Force during WW2. Date: circa 1940

waking in the night, Thoughts of Time and Space and Death Date: 1913
waking in the night, Thoughts of Time and Space and Death... Date: 1913

Comic postcard, I dreamt I was married
Comic postcard, Man has nightmare - I dreamt I was married!! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man falls out of bed onto chamber pot Date: 20th century

Waking with a Smile Date: 1950

WOMAN WAKING 1940S
Young woman, in a nightdress with gathered bodice & broad straps, stretches as she wakes up. A quilted dressing gown hangs up near her bed. N.B Satin quilt or eiderdown. Date: 1940s

PSYCHE LOOKS AT EROS
Psyche, visited by Eros after sundown, seeking to know what he looks like, spills hot oil from her lamp onto him, waking him, with sad consequences, though all ends happily enough

Propaganda cartoon - The Kaiser shocked at War Developments as he reads his paper in the morning in bed. His displeasure at the total blockade of Germany may have (in reality)

Night Watchman or Bellman 1608
The Night Watchman or Bellman of London, decribes the Watchman and Bellman as a person of some activity, the child of darkness, a common nightwalker; a man that had no man to wait upon him

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

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

Cartoon, Waking up Germania, WW1
Cartoon, Waking up Germania. After the war, Madame Germania must pay the bill for all the damage she has done. The waiter is a macabre, thin man with a skull for his head. Date: 1918

Exit tango: satire on the end of a dance craze, 1914
Satirical comment from Punch Magazine on the end of the tango craze. A couple dance off, while a some what more conservatively dressed spirit of dancing gladly wakes up from the "

Ambrose Applejohns Adventure by Walter Hackett, first produced as Spanish Treasure in Brighton and at the Criterion Theatre, London, July 1921

Little girl waking up on Christmas morning, with toys, butterflies, mistletoe, holly and a white dove. Date: circa 1890s

Waking from Sleep - Drunkard waking from sleep. Part of Box 79 Boswell Collection. Timothy Crab. Date: circa 1900

On New Years morning by Charles Robinson
Little girl waking up on New Years morning. Date: 1906

Cartoon, The Martians, WW1
Cartoon, The Martians. During the First World War, the residents of Mars complain to their neighbouring planet about the noise, and ask them to be more considerate. Date: 1918

Self-portrait of Andrew Besley, photographer, yawning and stretching in bed in the early morning. 1956

Child standing up in a cot on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

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

Proboscis monkey - adult male waking up, waiting for the sunshine in early morning (Nasalis larvatus). near Kinabatangan river; Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Dawn, First World War scene on the Western Front
Dawn, photographed by Cooke showing British troops, who have slept in the open country waking up to a misty morning in Flanders. Date: 1914

Bring the Batman (patented by Germany), Heath Robinson
Bring-The-Batman (Patented in Germany) by William Heath Robinson. Simplicity itself: A device adopted by hun officers for awakening their servants. Date: 1917

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

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

Be quick, they are waking up. Plate 78 of Los Caprichos
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Be quick, they are waking up. Plate 78 of Los Caprichos. Etching

Samurai waking style. Photograph shows a studio portrait of a samurai, full-length, standing between two potted plants, facing right

Waking up the old mare. Date c1881

Pet dog waking woman in bed
The Morning Star. Pet dog waking woman in bed Date: ca. 1865

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

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

Female Model Waking Up
A woman sits on her bed in her night-gown having just woken up

Waking in Barracks
A bugle calls the soldiers to get up, but France being a civilised nation, coffee is served before the men put on their uniforms

Watchman Waking US Up
The town watchman wakens, on Christmas morning, those who have not already been woken up by their children anxious to get at their presents

Nursemaid and Girl 1884
Margery is woken up by the nursemaid after dreaming about all her favourite nursery rhyme characters

WAKING UP / 1907
A young woman is woken up by a cat entering her bedroom

Sleeping (2 of 2)
LE REVEIL waking (2 of 2)

Rescued by Newfoundland
In 19th century prints, Newfoundland dogs spend most of their waking hours pulling small children from ponds into which they have injudiciously fallen

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