Asleep Collection (#5)

She cried " O miserable man, what sorry watch is this that thou has kept"
3086236 She cried " O miserable man, what sorry watch is this that thou has kept", illustration from The Story of The Magic Horse, 1938 (colour litho) by Dulac

The fixing of teazle heads into frames, 1850
3480184 The fixing of teazle heads into frames, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration depicting the fixing of teazle heads into frames which would be used to hand raise the nap on woollen cloth)

A Teasel, 1850
3479660 A Teasel, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a teasel; a tall prickly Eurasian plant with spiny purple flower heads; which is used in the raising of a nap on woollen cloth)

A young mother saying goodnight to her child, 1850
3477997 A young mother saying goodnight to her child, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a young mother saying goodnight to her child, whilst her sisters admire the baby)

Soldiers quarters with camp beds, 18th century
3507854 Soldiers quarters with camp beds, 18th century; (add.info.: Soldiers quarters with camp beds, inside Fort George; 18th-century fortress, north-east of Inverness in Scotland)

"On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep...", Illustration to the poem To Autumn, by John Keats
3502847 "On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep...", Illustration to the poem To Autumn, by John Keats, from Poems of Keats

Elves and fairies, owls and squirrels, asleep in a tree in the moonlight. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans
FLO4614696 Elves and fairies, owls and squirrels, asleep in a tree in the moonlight. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans after an illustration by Richard Doyle from In Fairyland

Gentleman reading a comedy aloud in a living room, when half asleep and quite stupid
FLO4679248 Gentleman reading a comedy aloud in a living room, when half asleep and quite stupid. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Two by two the hundred eyes closed (litho)
8639155 Two by two the hundred eyes closed (litho) by Richardson, Frederick (1862-1937); Private Collection; (add.info.: Two by two the hundred eyes closed)

My dream (colour litho)
8672712 My dream (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: My dream. Boy asleep in the woods dreaming about fiaries and animals)

Sleeping wounded from the Somme, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho)
STC400460 Sleeping wounded from the Somme, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho) by Bone, David Muirhead (1876-1953); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection

Sketch for "The Oriental Dream", before 1904 (oil on fabric)
XOS5882386 Sketch for "The Oriental Dream", before 1904 (oil on fabric) by Lecomte du Nouy, Jean Jules Antoine (1842-1923); 12.4x19.6 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

Mother takes a constitutional every afternoon - liar! (colour litho)
8656489 Mother takes a constitutional every afternoon - liar! (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Everything OK. Just going to have a bathe (colour litho)
8656473 Everything OK. Just going to have a bathe (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: "Everything OK)

Asleep, Atlas, Auction, Auger, Awning, Axle, Baboon, Baby, Badger, Baggage, Bagpipe, Baker (engraving)
8650031 Asleep, Atlas, Auction, Auger, Awning, Axle, Baboon, Baby, Badger, Baggage, Bagpipe, Baker (engraving) by German School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Asleep, Atlas)

Sleeping boy impervious to all attempts to wake him up in the morning (colour litho)
8635903 Sleeping boy impervious to all attempts to wake him up in the morning (colour litho) by Thiele, Carl Robert Arthur (1860-1936); Private Collection; (add.info)

Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (litho)
8655242 Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (litho) by Bell, Robert Anning (1863-1933); Private Collection; (add.info.: Prometheus Unbound)

Dreams of the Past (engraving)
8676286 Dreams of the Past (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dreams of the Past. "Youth, infancy and age in slumber lie")

Wolfert Webber at the Inn (Wolfert Webber's Golden Dream) 1857 (Oil on canvas)
8766600 Wolfert Webber at the Inn (Wolfert Webber's Golden Dream) 1857 (Oil on canvas) by Quidor, John (1801-81); 68.6x86.4 cm; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; © High Museum of Art

Sleeping satyr, Barberini faun, unknown author, ante 1811 (marble)
6384281 Sleeping satyr, Barberini faun, unknown author, ante 1811 (marble); Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy; (add.info.: Sleeping satyr, Barberini faun, unknown author, ante 1811)

A night shelter for the poor and homeless, provided by the Salvation Army in the 19th century (engraving)
1000853 A night shelter for the poor and homeless, provided by the Salvation Army in the 19th century (engraving); Private Collection; (add.info.: A night shelter for the poor and homeless)

Magnetizer student manual, c.1850-1900 (print)
8615290 Magnetizer student manual, c.1850-1900 (print); (add.info.: Cover of the book "Manual of the student magnetizer" by Baron du Potet (Denis, Jules Dupotet)

Reading, their bodies sometimes lean on one side, and sometimes on the other
PCT4256412 Reading, their bodies sometimes lean on one side, and sometimes on the other, in proportion to the effectiveness of the verse or prose! (image about the boredom caused by reading)

Soldiers quarters with camp beds, 18th century
3507853 Soldiers quarters with camp beds, 18th century; (add.info.: Soldiers quarters with camp beds, inside Fort George; 18th-century fortress, north-east of Inverness in Scotland)

A lonely mother with her little boy, 1850
3478183 A lonely mother with her little boy, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a lonely mother with her little boy asleep on her lap. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire
3086249 Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire

Education. Children life in the countryside. Sleep time. Engraving "Munchener Bilderbogen", Germany
3434968 Education. Children life in the countryside. Sleep time. Engraving "Munchener Bilderbogen", Germany, c.1880 (colour engraving); (add.info.: Education. Coll. Part. Education)

Delilah cutting Samson's hair, 1834
3478951 Delilah cutting Samson's hair, 1834; (add.info.: Delilah cutting Samson's hair. Illustration by William Marshall Craig (ca l765-ca l834)

The farmer asleep, and the thief creepy-creep (colour litho)
8642522 The farmer asleep, and the thief creepy-creep (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The farmer asleep, and the thief creepy-creep)

Drunk (engraving)
8642690 Drunk (engraving) by Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Drunk. Illustration for The Humourist by W H Harrison (Ackermann, 1831).); © Look and Learn

Don't worry - I'm quite comfortable here! (colour litho)
8656823 Don't worry - I'm quite comfortable here! (colour litho) by Carter, Reg (1886-1949); Private Collection; (add.info.: "Don't worry - I'm quite comfortable here)

Illustration for Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (litho)
8664531 Illustration for Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (litho) by Furniss, Harry (1854-1925) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Wounded Oliver smiles in his Sleep)

New York woman stealing from a sleeping man in the park (engraving)
8664227 New York woman stealing from a sleeping man in the park (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The pirate of the parks)

Ariadne, c.1720 (marble)
XYC238472 Ariadne, c.1720 (marble); 25.4x62.2 cm; Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA; (add.info.: daughter of King Minos of Crete;)

Walking wounded sleeping on deck, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho)
STC400437 Walking wounded sleeping on deck, illustration from The Western Front, pub. by Country Life Ltd, 1917 (litho) by Bone

Illustration for The Russian fairytale Firebird, 1916 (lithograph)
3533970 Illustration for The Russian fairytale Firebird, 1916 (lithograph) by Dulac, Edmund (1882-1953); (add.info.: " There he found the Princess asleep)

Art. The french painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec sleeping at the "Relais"
3434434 Art. The french painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec sleeping at the "Relais", house of the couple Thadee Natanson and Misia Sert at Villeneuve sur Yonne

Tomb of Princess Sofia Czartoryski of Varsavia (d.1837) by Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) 1844 (marble)
BEN85173 Tomb of Princess Sofia Czartoryski of Varsavia (d.1837) by Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) 1844 (marble); Santa Croce, Florence, Italy; Photo © Raffaello Bencini

The War in Schleswig: Austrian outpost near Lottorf - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Schleswig: Austrian outpost near Lottorf - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. In the Engraving on our front page we see the interior of a public-house at Lottorf occupied by a

"The Light of Other Days" - from a painting by J. T. Lucas, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
"The Light of Other Days" - from a painting by J. T. Lucas, 1864. Old Watchman, thou who watchest not, We smile on thy non-vigil now: Sleep on, nor dream, thou slumbrous sot

A quiet moment in German trenches, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
A quiet moment in German trenches, between 1914 and c1915. German soldiers smoking and reading in a trench in Flanders, Belgium, during World War I

Studies on Lindozero (laika [dog breed]), 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Studies on Lindozero (laika [dog breed]), 1915

"Boy Asleep", sculpture, by Alexander Munro, in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1864. Creator: Unknown
"Boy Asleep", sculpture, by Alexander Munro, in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1864. This most charming, but at the same time most difficult

A stampede of jackals through the environs of Calcutta, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
A stampede of jackals through the environs of Calcutta, 1864. A walk through Calcutta about midnight reveals to the European stranger many curious sights

Poor in North France sleeping in church, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Poor in North France sleeping in church, between 1914 and c1915. Poor people with a soldier, sleeping in a church in France, during World War I

Eskimo mother and child, c1905, printed (1923?). Creator: Lomen Brothers
Eskimo mother and child, c1905, printed (1923?)

Eskimo mother carrying a child on her back, 1916(?). Creator: Unknown
Eskimo mother carrying a child on her back, 1916(?)

Ostyatsky village Olenyi yurts, 1928. Creator: Dmitrii Innokent'evich Karatanov
Ostyatsky village Olenyi yurts, 1928. V. I. Surikov Museum of Art in Krasnoiarsk

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"Asleep: A Journey through Dreamscapes and Slumber" Step into the world of dreams, where reality fades away and imagination takes flight. In George Marshall and Raymond Careys' "Pack Up Your Troubles" (1932), Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy find solace in slumber amidst a chaotic world. John Everett Millais' masterpiece "My Second Sermon" (1864) captures the tranquility of sleep as a young child rests peacefully, unaware of the troubles that await them in adulthood. The Railway Sleeper becomes a temporary sanctuary for weary travelers, offering respite from their daily struggles. Dionysus and the Maenads (1901) depict mythical beings finding solace in sleep after wild revelry. Cecil Aldin's "Sleeping Partners and Dissolved Partnership" showcases two loyal companions embracing slumber together, symbolizing trust and unity even in restful moments. Alice Griffin finds herself lost in dreamland, her mind wandering to distant realms while she peacefully dozes off. Harry Clarke's haunting artwork "Morella" (c1920) evokes an ethereal sense of mystery surrounding sleep. Mary L. Macomber's enchanting painting "Night and Her Daughter Sleep" (1902) portrays nighttime as a nurturing mother figure cradling her child-like counterpart, emphasizing the importance of rejuvenation during restful hours. Gustave Courbet's mesmerizing piece "Le Sommeil" (1866) delves into the realm of sensuality within sleep, capturing intimate moments frozen in time. The reawakening scene from Sleeping Beauty ballet reminds us that even amidst deep slumber, there is always hope for new beginnings and magical awakenings. Shirley Markham's surreal study from 1952 invites viewers to explore bizarre dreamscapes where reality merges with fantasy – reminding us that our subconscious holds infinite possibilities when we surrender to sleep's embrace.