Historic Dance Sketches

Pencil sketches depicting various performers, including dancers and musicians, from early 20th century artistic works, capturing the essence of live performances.

Satirical illustration depicting a large puddle of blood in the middle. In the background are four men wandering around. In the foreground three hands are visible shooting guns executing another.

Audience in theatre

NICK NOLTE and MARTIN SCORSESE in NEW YORK STORIES (1989), directed by MARTIN SCORSESE, WOODY ALLEN and FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA.

Cycling acrobat on the stage. In front of spectators and the conductor in the orchestra. Leaf 11 Recto from sketchbook V with 33 sheets.

Catching arable birds and animals. Two performances on a leaf. Above: Two men drag with a net over a field to catch birds. Under: Construction of an animal trap in two figures.

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He: Why the dickens does that girl in front keep sticking out her left hand She: Oh! That's the Smith girl- she's just got engaged! 5th December 1928

Salon Orchestra Meier 1911 Moriz Jung Austrian. Salon Orchestra Meier 649896

Catch birds, fishing fishing rod and roots. Three performances on a leaf. Above: A man pulls a net over two birds to catch them. There is his hat on the net. Bottom left: a fishing rod. At the bottom right: a man pulls the roots from the ground with a special construction.

Deutschen Theater, der Triumph der Eitelkeit. Tommy Parzinger (1903-1981). Lithograph in colours. Dated 1929. 208 x 81cm.

- After surviving the hundred pages of cartoons and skits showered upon him in our recent Special "Falling Pound" Number. A final satirical picture showing John Bull staggering through a paper storm of jokes. 1920

Turnau Jerzy Christmas wishes genre scene with Ulan Beliniak

The christening scene in a ballet version of the Sleeping Beauty, with the wicked fairy Carabosse putting her curse on the baby Princess in her cradle. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697, and performed as a ballet in several versions, the most famous being set to music by Tchaikovsky, first performed in 1890. Date: 1960

Hill Magical Company. Posters. 1900. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Hill Magical Co

Italian Dance Evening; Italienischer Tanzabend. Hermann Max Pechstein (1881-1955). Gouache, watercolour and charcoal on paper. Signed and dated 1909. 28.5 x 38.1cm.

A treasury of Christmas past , Christmas trees, Dolls, Hobby horses, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Costume design for the ballet The Nutcracker by P. Tchaikovsky by Virsaladze, Simon Bagrationovich (1909-1989) / State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow / Theatrical scenic painting / 1966 / Russia / Gouache on paper / Opera, Ballet, Theatre /

Roll picture Wenzel Scholz as Blasius Feuerbursche in Rebus at all corners, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artist

The dancer Ellinor Tordis, Martin Imboden -, photographer

Backstage theatre by Luckman

Four Geishas vote their instruments for a performance for two men in a tea house in Japan, Kōzaburō Tamamura, c. 1896 - c. 1906 photomechanical print Japan paper collotype tea garden, garden restaurant. performance (+ artist in non-work situation). tuning an instrument Japan

Shigenari Kimura Starting for the Front

, Gebrüder-Lang-Gasse -, prayer and ballroom, the Calasantinum, theater hall, postcard, Unknown

Cajun Band, Bourbon Street John Newcomb, Ink drawing 1998

Bliżej Kultury unknown

Mrs Blotchet (after watching a violent drive by her husband during the eclipse of the sun): Well, I knew he'd knock a hole in something before he'd finished.' A humorous illustration showing a golfer who has managed to knock a hole through the moon with a misjudged shot. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1927

300 (2006), directed by ZACK SNYDER.

DONATAS BANIONIS in GOYA-ODER DER ARGE WEG DER ERKENNTNIS (1971), directed by KONRAD WOLF.

Actor Kasim Konstanty Muchutdinowicz Muchutdinow (1896 1964) in a costume for the role of Tuhaj Beja (film Bohdan Chmielnicki Directed by Igor Sawczenka from 1941) Ivanec ', Ivan (1893 1946)

Circus sideshow, 1888, by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), oil on canvas, 99.7x149.9 cm.

The Audition by Martha Walter, watercolor, 1928, 1875-1976, USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, David David Gallery

Strauss Is Playing Today, Johann Baptist Strauss II, 1825 - 1899, Austrian composer and violinist, silhouette print by Otto Böhler, digitally edited

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at piano, illustration

Juggling Jack 1999 Jeremy Hauser (20th C. American) Oil on canvas Private Collection

France, Paris, Reconstruction of the scenes (Act4) of first performance of opera Carmen by Georges Bizet

DAMES (1934), directed by RAY ENRIGHT.

Boy with rifle pointing it at a sign with three birds sitting on it. , Boys, Palettes, Birds, Rifles, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Paul Klee at Birdland Gil Mayers (b.1947/American) Mixed Media

Conductor, illustration, Gerhard Kraus, Kriftel, Germany, Europe

Series The Tree World from the Equator to the North Cape, the Oak, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, Liebig Colle...

Special skills panel at Westmoreland Fair, Pennsylvania 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985), directed by WOODY ALLEN.

The man who sang the words of the wrong verse. Date: 1928

Maurici Vilomara i Virgili / Escenografía. Arxiu històric de la Societat del Gran Teatre del Liceu.

KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (1977), directed by JOHN "BUD" CARDOS.

Two hands playing on a bandoneon. .

PETER PAN (1953), directed by WILFRED JACKSON and HAMILTON LUKE.

Low angle view of a group of people riding a parachute ride

Two performances with a boy and a donkey. At the top of the text 'the donkey', possibly a reference to the title of the book where the performances are made, surrounded by thistles. On the left a boy who performs a donkey from a scale. On the right a boy who rolls down a hill in a ton while he is viewed by a donkey.

Wedding Dance, Fine Art

SUZIE IN THE GARDEN (2022) -Original title: ZUZA V ZAHRADACH-, directed by LUCIE SUNKOVA.

Waiting for the Show, 2004, Richard H. Fox (b.1960/American), Watercolor & Ink on Paper

NA, USA, Florida. Framed paintings of circus posters displayed at the Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota.

A clown wearing colourful costume and mask, with wild hair and hat with animal on top, and holding a rattle.

Franz SCHALK, 1863-1931, Viennese musician and conductor, cartoon

Wenzel Scholz as a servant rhymeberl in Robert the Teuxel, Johann Matthias Ranftl -, artist

Ballad of the New Comet, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Marathon Dancers by Ernest Stock, 20th Century

The night when Turandot orders mass exectution if stranger´s name is not revealed from Turandot opera by Puccini 1st produced 1926.

Smoke swallow (Chelidon Rústica L.) at the art nest, the boy feeding

COMIC DE FLASH GORDON. Author: ALEX RAYMOND (1909-1956).

Germany, Berlin, Set design for performance The Magic Flute, the Queen of the night

Stick Police, drags legal prosecution of anoymous street artists into ridiculousness, 2004, Banksy, exhibition about the street artist, Muelheim, Germany, Europe

Crocodile / waltz / orchestrated by Arban Cover

The Skeleton Banquet.. Attributed to London Stereoscopic Company (active 1854 - 1890)

Puck Magazine: Puck's Palette, Puck Magazine

SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959), directed by WOLFGANG REITHERMAN.

La Fiesta de la Bienvenida/1971.

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Big Circus, original title: Daikyokubam, Japanese print showing circus performers engaged in activities, by Sandindo, 1871.

Book illustration, Max and Moritz falling into a chest of flour, Max and Moritz, A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch, 1865

Stills from Cartoon film "A Story of Recovery". Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Canal Street by Erik Slutsky, watercolor, gouache and pastel, 1998, 20th century

Shadow Puppet (Wayang Kulit) of Rampokan Raksasa, from the set KyaiDrajat

Jazz musicians are made of sheet music

KILL BILL: VOL. 1 (2003), directed by QUENTIN TARANTINO.

China Postcard 'and we dare to call them devilish!', Alfaro Reijding, c. 1900 - c. 1918 Postcard in black and yellow with three men, each with hat and book. Netherlands paper printing political caricatures and satires China

HERBIE RIDES AGAIN (1974), directed by ROBERT STEVENSON.

A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn, Life of a Sportsman

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