Resting Collection

Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), two curled up asleep in drey inside nest box. Nest of lichen and Pine needles. Highlands, Scotland, UK. Medium repro only

Railway Sleeper - Crewe Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing railway porter at Crewe Station. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Sleepover
Julia Ramiro

Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Blue British Shorthair cat lying on his back

Village green cricket, Tilford, Surrey, England, UK

Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) buck and doe bedded

Dawn Beach, St. Martin (St. Maarten), Netherlands Antilles, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Lee Morgan, 1961. Creator: Brian Foskett
Lee Morgan, 1961

African Lioness - close up of female (Panthera leo)

Heavy shire horse pulls an old hay rake
A farmer and his heavy horse take a break from working to gather hay on a field. They stop to talk to another farmer and a young lady in white dress

Sherlock Holmes theatre poster
Theatre poster advertising a four-part drama of Sherlock Holmes, playing at the Grand Theatre in Halifax, the show travelling from the Lyceum Theatre in London

Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Blue British Shorthair cat

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) resting, Pico, Azores, Portugal, June 2009 WWE OUTDOOR EXHIBITION. NOT AVAILABLE FOR GREETING CARDS OR CALENDARS. WWE BOOK

Ocelot (Felis pardalis) endangered species, captive animal

Suffolk Punch heavy horse in field resting head anothers back, UK, September

Royal Engineers - British Army Regiment on manoeuvres - stopping for a rest during a route march Date: 1905

Tricolour Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy, lying with chin on floor

Young woman sleeping in bed (B&W)

Leopard (Panthera pardus) black panther melanistic phase, adult, resting on log, captive

Railway Sleeper - Melton Mowbray Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Hunstman taking a nap with his foxhound at Melton Mowbray Station! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Highland cow lying on Heather, Curbar Edge, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. August

Reading Aloud, 1884, (1936). Creator: Albert Joseph Moore
Reading Aloud, 1884, (1936). Women in classical dress recline while reading a book. Victorian oil on canvas by Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893). Held at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

St Bartholomews Hospital courtyard, London, with patients resting in the open air. Date: circa 1910s

Railway Sleeper - Euston Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Scottish football fan at Euston Station awaiting his return train back north of the border. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Doubtful Sound, Fiordland National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Southland, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Advert for Burberry winter sports wear 1926
A group of skiers take a rest. Date: 1926

Wild Jaguar (Panthera onca), Endangered, Cuiaba River, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Ural Owl (Stix uralensis) resting in snowy tree, Kuusamo Finland February

Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) adult male at rest, Dorset, UK, November

Winter Landscape, 1835-1838, by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (18
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862). Dutch painter. Winter Landscape, 1835-1838. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Coal miners relaxing after a shift. This is a coal mine in Donetsk, Ukraine. Photographed in May 1987 when Ukraine was still part of the USSR

Africa, Kenya
Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus, with cub in the Masai Mara GR, Kenya

The Last Resting Place of Captain Scott
The inner tent in which Captain Scott and his two companions were discovered taken by a member of the relief party which found the tent on November 12th 1912

Lyme Regis
The Cobb and beach at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

English Bulldog, on a down and stay command, hopeful for a treat. (PR)

Sketches of an Irish Wolfhound by Cecil Aldin
Two sketches of an Irish Wolfhound by Cecil Aldin -- probably his own dog Mickie. Date: 1939

Rest (oil on canvas)
XIR154128 Rest (oil on canvas) by Hammershoi, Vilhelm (1864-1916); 49.5x46.5 cm; Musee d Orsay, Paris, France; (add.info.: Hvile; Repos; ); Danish, out of copyright

Any Girl, Any Station, Anywhere by S. Van Abbe
A fashionable young woman from the 1920s wearing a fur trimmed coat and a green cloche hat, rest her sore feet while sitting on a very large trunk at a railway station. Date: 1927

A shepherd resting
An elderly shepherd rests on a small hillock with his collie dog as his sheep graze contentedly. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Two deck chairs on tropical beach facing sea, Maldives, Indian Ocean, Asia

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Windsurfing at Kahului Beach, Maui, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Elderly man playing a sitar by the Ganges (Ganga) River, Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh State, India

Horseshoe Bay, Bermuda

Adult male lion (Panthera leo) greeting his son, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa

Eve Before The Fall. By A. E. Bestall
A scene beside a waterfall of four girls in their bathing costumes. The girls are watching the waterfall, prehaps resting after swimming

Chef; Le Cuisinier, (oil on canvas)
653335 Chef; Le Cuisinier, (oil on canvas) by Lebasque, Henri (1865-1937); 64.7x54.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Chef; Le Cuisinier. Henri Lebasque (1865-1937). Oil on canvas

Mickie, the Irish Wolfhound, in a chair
Study of Mickie, Cecil Aldins Irish Wolfhound, with his head resting on the arm of a chair. Date: 1932

Two biplanes with resting crew, Iraq
Two biplanes in the desert with their crew resting and drinking, somewhere in Iraq

View of Florence from Boboli Gardens, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

The beach at Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, United States of America (U.S.A.), North America

Lalish capital of the Kurdish sect of the Yazidis in Iraq Kurdistan

Sheep graze in Kensington Gardens
Sheep grazing in Kensington Gardens, London. The first ever Ha-Ha in the country acted as the dividing line between Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

Clan Fraser
Clan FRASER resting his hand on his drawn sabre

Playa Kenepa, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean, Central America

Restaurant in Puerto Corinto, Department of Chinandega, Nicaragua, Central America

Beach, Cat Island, The Bahamas, West Indies, Central America

Grey Seal, Halichoerus grypus, adult male lying on beach yawning. Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, UK. (RR)
Michael Hutchinson / SplashdownDirect

The Pond, Central Park, New York, USA

Close up of the head of a reclining Buddha statue, Wat Pha Baat Tai, Luang Prabang, Laos

Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK

Kynance Cove, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

1950s American car on the beach, Goanabo, Cuba, Caribbean Sea, Central America

Blue Crow Butterfly, Euphoea mulciber subvisaya

Snow Monkey Mother & Child, Jigokudani, Nagano, Japan

Cafe during Edinburgh Festival, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

The Morning After the Battle of Isted 25 July 1850, 1876 (oil on canvas)
8714682 The Morning After the Battle of Isted 25 July 1850, 1876 (oil on canvas) by Sonne, Jorgen Valentin (1801-90); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) sleeping at hot spring in Jigokudani, Yaenkoen, Nagano, Japan, February

Aryan Types
A typical Aryan couple looking very strong and healthy, the man resting his hands on the womans shoulders

Woman in hammock, Maldives, Indian Ocean, Asia

The Lady of Shalott
Magdalena Russocka

Pink Dreamcatcher
Xuan Thai

Bamboo lemur (Hapalmur griseus) in tree. Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar

African Lion - cub lying down alert whilst adults are resting (Panthera leo). Ndutu area between Serengeti and Ngorongoro - Tanzania

A Grey Day - Laura Knight
Two adventureurous women on a rocky hillside, resting and relaxing under the tranquil but unimaginative sky

A female Leopard (Panthera pardus) rests in the shade, lying on the branch of a tree

European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) at night in urban park near l'Arc de Triomphe, with Champs Elysees in background, Paris, France

After the ball (oil on canvas)
IND54494 After the ball (oil on canvas) by Casas i Carbo, Ramon (1866-1932); Museu de Montserrat, Abadia de Montserrat, Spain; Index Fototeca

The Martini-Henry Rifle (engraving)
1625821 The Martini-Henry Rifle (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Martini-Henry Rifle. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 22 July 1871)

The first ever "Notting Hill carnival", created in response to the previous
The first ever " Notting Hill carnival", created in response to the previous years racial riots in the area and the state of race relations at the time

Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) close up whilst resting, Punta Suarez, Espanola Island, Galapagos

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"Finding Serenity in Rest: A Collection of Peaceful Moments" The red squirrel finds solace in its cozy nest box, curled up with a partner, surrounded by a soft bed of lichen. With complete trust and vulnerability, the blue British Shorthair cat lies on its back, embracing the tranquility that comes with rest. On the village green cricket field in Tilford, Surrey, England, the players take a break from their game to bask in the soothing stillness of nature. In a hidden spot amidst nature's embrace, a mule deer buck and doe find respite as they peacefully bed down together. The African lioness reveals her softer side as she closes her eyes and indulges in moments of pure relaxation. Another glimpse into feline bliss captures the blue British Shorthair cat reveling in uninterrupted repose. Sperm whales gracefully float near Pico Island shores in Portugal's Azores archipelago—resting giants of the deep sea taking time for rejuvenation. As dawn breaks over Dawn Beach in St Martin (St Maarten), Netherlands Antilles, West Indies—a serene moment unfolds where land meets sea—an invitation to pause and recharge. An iconic advert from 1926 showcases Burberry winter sports wear—a reminder that even during active pursuits we must prioritize resting our bodies and minds to fully enjoy life's adventures. "Rest, " an exquisite oil painting on canvas captures an artist's interpretation of tranquility—inviting viewers to immerse themselves within its calming strokes. The courtyard at St Bartholomew's Hospital stands as an oasis amidst London's bustling streets—a place where doctors and patients alike can find solace through moments of quiet reflection. In these diverse scenes captured across different landscapes and species, one common thread emerges—the importance of rest for all living beings seeking inner peace and rejuvenation.