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  • Eve emerges from sleeping Adam's side. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • Two angels approach the Virgin Mary and Joseph with Christ sleeping in his cradle. Etching.
  • Mosquito headnet with armholes, covering upper body, modelled by a sleeping man. Photograph, 1902/1918 (?).
  • Lord Melbourne sleeps on a chair set on a chest marked "treasury", the Duke of Wellington holds a pole inscribed "magnanimity", while Lord Brougham uses his pole inscribed "faction" as a lever. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • Red Cross workers sleeping in hammocks during the Serbo-Turkish War. Wood engraving after G. Durand.
  • Men lie sleeping as a man sows seeds; representing the biblical parable of the sower. Etching.
  • Delilah cuts the sleeping Samson's hair, smiling at the Philistine soldiers waiting in the shadows. Engraving.
  • Yei, Uganda: a sleeping sickness camp: grass-roofed huts and logs in the foreground. Photograph, 1900/1910.
  • A medical officer taking a sample of blood from an inhabitant of Buruma Island, suffering from sleeping sickness. Photograph, 1965, after photograph 1902.
  • An anxious mother checking on her sleeping baby. Coloured lithograph by E. de Barescut after Lebot.
  • A boy with leprosy sleeping, and holding a kite: three figures. Colour lithograph by Kogyi, 1949.
  • An anxious mother checking on her sleeping baby. Coloured lithograph by E. de Barescut after Lebot.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth.
  • The head and front leg of a sleeping pig. Etching by J.C. Zeitter after J. Ward.
  • A male dwarf sexually aroused by a sleeping female dwarf. Coloured etching by M. Engelbrecht, after 1715.
  • A young man in a large brimmed hat leaning on the back of a sleeping sheep. Etching.
  • Two people watching over the cradle of a sleeping baby at night. Aquatint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644.
  • Two people watching over the cradle of a sleeping baby at night. Aquatint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the sleeping Christ Child. Line engraving by R. Strange after G. Reni.
  • God lifts Eve from sleeping Adam's side. Etching by G.B. Leonetti after C. Cencioni after Nicola Pisano.
  • [Postal cancellation stamp (11 September 1992) for G.R. Lane of Gloucester, advertising their Kalms natural sleeping tablets].
  • A sleeping woman being provoked by two men with tobacco pipes. Mezzotint by W. Baillie after G. Dou.
  • A clog-carver working in a daylight-basement with a window on to the street; another man sits on a stool in the street talking to him while smoking a pipe; a dog sleeps on the roof over the window. Etching by Adriaen van Ostade.
  • A guardian angel (or Night) carries a sleeping child. Etching by James Basire, 1763, after Domenico Cresti, il Passignano.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.
  • An invalid boy in a Bath chair outside an open air sleeping-chalet. Photograph by W. Ames, ca. 1900.
  • A frog standing on a mushroom feeding a wasp to a sleeping frog underneath him. Colour lithograph after E.M.
  • The figure of a little old lady with wings sits on the edge of the sleeping girl's bed. Process print.