Night Shirt Collection

The Man who wore a Nightshirt on the lido

Couple drinking tea in bed, Card (chromolitho)
730706 Couple drinking tea in bed, Card (chromolitho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Couple drinking tea in bed)

Monkey Tricks (w / c on paper)
NCO403563 Monkey Tricks (w/c on paper) by English School; Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford; English, out of copyright

Actor and singer David Bowie seen in the role of John Merrick in " The Elephant Man", on stage at the Booth Theatre, Beoadway New York. 18th September 1980

Wee Willie Winkie " Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown, rapping at the window, crying through the lock

The Poet Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov (1877-78) at the time of The Last Songs
BAL170647 The Poet Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov (1877-78) at the time of The Last Songs, 1877 (oil on canvas) by Kramskoy, Ivan Nikolaevich (1837-87); 105x89 cm; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Final Warning, 1886 (oil on mahogany panel)
XKH144520 The Final Warning, 1886 (oil on mahogany panel) by Duverger, Theophile Emmanuel (1821-86); 51.5x76 cm; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; French, out of copyright

Humorous Card - Fleas & the Bedpan
Silly (yet rather funny) carton postcard, bearing the following caption: SOCIETY GOSSIP - this week the Duchess of Billingsgate in hunting

Child Praying C1850
A child kneels in prayer at the side of the bed

Coup: Changarnier Arrest
General Changarnier, one of Napoleons most formidable political opponents, is roused from bed and arrested in his nightshirt by troops loyal to Napoleon

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Step into a whimsical world of nightshirts and nostalgia, where tales of grumpy Englishmen in French hotels, monkey tricks, and poetic musings intertwine. Picture a man, weary from travel, wearing a nightshirt in a lithograph from 1903. Or, envision a cozy scene of a couple enjoying tea in bed, their nightshirts adding to the warmth and comfort of the moment, as depicted in a chromolitho card. Delve deeper into the annals of history with the enigmatic figure of John Merrick, portrayed by David Bowie in the film "The Elephant Man," who famously wore a nightshirt as part of his recovery. Poet Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov, in his later years, is captured in an oil painting, pen in hand and nightshirt on, as he penned his last songs. Humor and wit are not absent from this nightshirt narrative, as evidenced by a flea-ridden bedpan card, where even the insects seem to appreciate the comfort of the nightshirt. Lastly, a coup de grâce of this nightshirt journey brings us to the arrest of Changarnier in 1886, depicted in an oil painting on mahogany panel, where the subject, still in his nightshirt, faces his final warning.