Theatrical and Historical Illustrations

Engravings depicting theatrical scenes and historical events, featuring dancers, performers, and public gatherings in detailed black and white art.

The employment of children in pantomimes - a group of children rehearse a dance with a violin accompaniment Date: 1889

SCENE FROM 'THE HAPPY LAND,' AT THE COURT THEATRE, 1873

Digestion of the budget (IFF 43). (registered title)

The employment of children in pantomimes - a group of children rehearse a dance with a violin accompaniment Date: 1889

Pickwick Papers, 'Mr. Pickwick went slowly and gravely down the slide, with his feet about a yard and a quarter apart, amidst the gratified shouts of all the spectators.'

History of Spain. Carnival scene. Leaving a masquerade ball. Drawing by Comba. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878.

HER MAJESTY'S COSTUME BALL, THE 'SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY' DANCE, IN THE PICTURE GALLERY

A village dance taking place in an inn, created between 1790 and 1800. The artwork features ballroom dancing and is presented as an engraving. Dimensions of the piece are 20 x 25 cm

BARCELONA. FIESTAS MAYORES EN CATALUÑA. BAILE DE PLAZA. GRABADO DEL MUSEO UNIVERSAL , AÑO 1860.

Public amuses itself at a performance with a tightrope walking monkey Le singe savant Artists and beggars , print maker: Martin Sylvestre Baptiste, (mentioned on object), printer: Gottfried Engelmann, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1826, paper, h 314 mm

Princess of Trebisonda, Act III, sixth scene, at the Theatre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1399, Volume LIV, December 18, 1869.

THE INTERNATIONAL PEASANT FESTIVAL AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL, IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE WEST END HOSPITAL FOR PARALYSIS, LONDON

Actors in a gin palace at Bartholomew Fair, London. Actors in costume as Romans, Harlequin, clowns, etc, at a Regency tavern. A spiritual scene and full of characters. Proteus and his brother actors taking refreshment during the part intervals between performances at Batholomew Fair. Handcoloured engraving etched by Theodore Lane from Pierce Egans The Life of an Actor, Pickering and Chatto, London, 1892.

An engraving depicting a gin court scuffle during St Crispin's Day celebration in Petty France, London. Illustrated by George Cruikshank (1792-1878) a British caricaturist and book illustrator. Dated 19th century

SCENE FROM BALFE'S NEW OPERA OF 'THE ROSE OF CASTILE,' AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE

Farmers fight for an inn; Genre scenes. Two farmers fight for an inn. They kick and hit each other. A dog attracts the apron of a woman trying to get them apart. Bystanders watch.

The Last Hours of the Carnival in 1869, Paris, France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

SCENE FROM THE NEW BURLESQUE OF 'COLUMBUS,' AT THE GAIETY THEATRE, 1869

Wild West: Variety Entertainment in Cheyenne 1877 Artist Unknown Print

A MERRY-GO-ROUND IN THE CHAMPS ELYSEES, 1874 engraving

Attempt on the life of George III (1738-1820) king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760. Attempt on the king's life at the theatre, 15 May 1800. Engraving published in 1820.

Dancing at a carnival in a village inn, 1869, in Hungary, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date un...

Cuba. Motín e insurreción de los independentistas cubanos; escena del alboroto en el teatro Villanueva de La Habana. Grabado de 1869.

Engraving depicting a scene from the opera 'The Night Dancers' at the Royal English Opera, Covent Garden. Dated 1860

Europe. A juggler's stage set in a village. On stage a juggler and a medicine seller talking to the crowd. Engraving after a 15th-century manuscript. Sciences & Lettres au Moyen Age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877.

Poor Italian workers in London enjoying an entertainment. From The Graphic, London, 1 March 1871.

Ballet rehearsal onstage. Prints. 1850 - 1859. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Ballet dancers , 19th century, Dance rehearsals

Fish auction in Les Halles central market, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1389, Volume LIV, October 9, 1869.

A performance of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in an Elizabethan playhouse Date: 16th century

A Parisian Ball - Dancing at the Mabille, Paris, Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910, Harper's Weekly, Wood engraving in black ink on paper, Couples dancing in the center of a dance hall. Large crowd of men with top hats in background., USA, November 23, 1867, figures, Print, Print

Unknown, A Masked Ball at the Academy of Music at Paris, 1858, wood engraving on paper.

Die gebackene, verbrannte, Hexe, Schlußszene aus dem Märchen Hänsel und Gretel, um 1890, Deutschland, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, historisch

The Beggar's Opera performed by actors with animal heads; musicians in the foreground. Engraving, 1833.

The skeleton of Death with his dart causes a riot among the harlequins, jockeys, nuns, Turks and fools at a masquerade ball. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.

Gemaskerd bal.On a ball people are dressed as descendants of various peoples. In the background a small orchestra plays on a stage. On the left for shares a clown bottles with olfactory water.

Le bal Bullier,' 1860-1869, published by imp. Auguste Bry in Paris. This color lithograph depicts a ballroom scene featuring dancers. The dimensions of the lithograph are 37.5 x 55 cm

People in a boxing club having a fist-fight: the chairman in the middle holds up a gavel, and a woman hits a man over the head with a tankard. Etching by J. Barlow, 1789, after S. Collings.

Masked Bal, Lambertus Antonius Claessens, After Jacques Kuyper, 1803 print On a ball, people are dressed as descendants of various peoples. A small orchestra plays on a stage in the background. On the left, a clown hands out bottles with smell water. Amsterdam paper etching masquerade, masked ball. small group of musicians, chamber orchestra, jazz band

Extempore Musical and Terpischorean entertainment at the United States Arsenal, Baton Rouge, Louisiana under the patronage of the Forty First Massachusetts, the One hundred and thirty first New York and the Twenty fifth Connecticut volunteers - Contraband children dancing the breakdown

Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter - Fete at Baltaliman, 1854. Celebrations at Constantinople for the wedding of Fatma Sultan, aged 14, and Ali Galip Pasha. View of '...one of the bridal fetes, given in the rear of the Palace of Baltaliman, in a large field, where hundreds of tents, in the European style, had been erected...The dancers both play the castanets. The arena is attended by a clown...Spectators crowd round the tent...Musicians, seated on the ground, play guitars, clarionets, tambourines, and sing most uproariously. The same scene takes place before every tent simultaneously or succes

Puppet game, Julius Conrad, in OR Before 1954 print Square with a stage where a puppet show is performed. For the stage spectators and musicians. paper etching / drypoint puppet and marionette show. village square, place

THE EPILOGUE TO THE WESTMINSTER PLAY, 1872 engraving

Theatrical emotion of Mr. Vincent Crummles, provincial actor manager who employs Nicholas for a while., From Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, Illustration by 'Phiz' or Hablot Knight Browne, (1815-1882/British), Dickens' main illustrator

Engraving showing a riding 'lesson' taking place in the ring of Sanger's Circus, February 1884. A would-be rider can be seen being hoisted onto a running horse, via a rotating winch. Date: 1884

Le bal Mabile, Champs-Elysées. Prints. 1850 - 1860. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. pleasure gardens, Social dancing , 19th century

Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - The murderer leaping upon the stage, and catching his spur in the flag which hung before the President's box, April 1865

Mrs. Squeers administering compulsory dose of brimstone and treacle by 'Phiz' (Hablot Knight Browne), Illustration for Charles Dickens 'Nicholas Nickelby', London, 1838-1839

CHRISTMAS SOIREE, AT THE HANOVER SQUARE ROOMS, OF THE ASSOCIATION IN AID OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, 1869

Engraving depicting a masquerade, a precursor Opera show. Dated 18th Century

English novelist Charles Dickens (18371870) publshedhis first novel 'The Pickwick Papers' in 10 installments of three chapters each. the first installment appeared in 1836. The illustrator was Hablot Browne. Browne's pseudonym was 'Phiz'; Dickens' was 'Boz.' Note the name 'Phiz' underneath this illustration of Browne titled 'Pickwick Slides.'.

Performance of the opera La Perichole, The Street Singer, by Jacques Offenbach, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original...

Cartoon at the musical competition in Brussels, 1827; Concours de Bruxelles. Sociéte ambulant d'Ixelles. Rehearsal of a chaotic music corps from Ixelles (Ixelles) at Brussels led by a German bandmaster. There are also some animals between the musicians. Under the show De Legenda 1-4 in French and German. Cartoon at the musical competition in Brussels, July 17, 1827. See also the pendant.

Three Performances, Related to Bern, On One Block: The Zeitglockenthurm in Bern (at the Top); Bolf costume in the canton of Bern (in the Middle); The Swiss Confederation in Bern unknown

Street scene, a circus arrives in the city, woodcut, 1888, England

. Left in the foreground, for a tavern, a carnival fourth company: it is eaten, drunk and strand. Center in front of a carriage. On the right a stage with masked figures. In the background a fight with a bull and face in a village. In the middle of the constellation. The print has a Latin caption.

After Winslow Homer, The Great Russian Ball at the Academy of Music, November 5, 1863, published 1863 The Great Russian Ball at the Academy of Music, November 5, 1863

People throwing confetti on masked revellers during the masquerade at Mardi Gras, Venice, Italy, 17th century. From a calendar. Les Premiers Confettis pendant les Fetes des Jours Gras. Lithograph from Henry Rene dAllemagnes Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

Zagłoba dancing at the wedding party, illustration for Henryk Sienkiewiczs novel “With Fire and Sword". Piotrowski, Antoni (1853-1924), draughtsman, cartoonist

THE CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES

theatre opera ""Tannh_user and the Singers' War at Wartburg"" (Tannh_user und der S_ngerkrieg auf der Wartburg) by Richard Wagner act 2 last scene Paris Opera wood engraving by Alphonse de Neuvile 1861 from: Ernst B»cken The Music of the 19th Century to the Modernity Potsdam 1928,

The descent of the Courtille to the underworld, devils and the damned, Scene XVIII of Sans Queue ni Tete, Coignard and Clairville show at the Theatre des Varietes, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 880, Volume 35, January 7, 1860.

Historical illustration of the street carnival in Munich around 1890, Bavaria, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date unknown, Europe

Gustav III is assassinated at a masked ball at the Opera House by Jakob Johan Anckarstrom

Gustav III, king of Sweden, is assassinated at a masked ball at the Opera House by Jakob Johan Anckarstrom

Zotten fair, Pieter van der Heyden, After Pieter Bruegel (I), 1580 - 1618 print A large number of fools dance and jump, blow on whistles and mouth drum or rolls with balls over the ground. In the foreground a fool that makes an obscene gesture with an owl on the hand. In the background on the right the musicians are on an elevation, on the left are some spectators in an arbor. On the right in the background a circular riding school. Various sayings or expressions are depicted in the performance. Under the show four four -line verses in Dutch. Antwerp paper engraving fool, simpleton, numskull. festivities (+ dancing ~ festive activities). group dancing. small group of musicians, chamber orchestra, jazz band - CC - 'concert champíªtre'. Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa). violin, fiddle. cocking a snook (gesture with thumb to nose, fingers spread out). hurdy-gurdy. hurdy-gurdy player. drum (musical instrument). one person playing percussion instrument. one pe

THE STROLLING MUSICIAN, BY BARON; Le Musicien ambulant, par Baron

A Grand Jamaica ball or the Creolean hop a la muftee, as exhibeted in Spanish Town, Holland, William, active 1782-1817, engraving 1802, British transplants dancing and being served by Jamaicans at a ball in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Includes six lines of verse warning women against loose living.

Crowd of children for the Christmas performance of the pantomime at the Drury-Lane Theatre, London, 1869, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original, exact original date unknown

This color poster from around 1900 depicts a circus pantomime featuring a Roman fencer. It highlights the performer's costume, fencing action, and decorative theatrical design.

A zooling garden; Munchener plates. Sheet with 3 performances about a beast party that changes to a beast. Numbered in the middle of: Nro. 135. Numbered at the top right: 135.

A stereo albumin photograph from 1880 depicting the festival evening performance of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Prague section, showing performers and stage elements.

English dandies enjoying blood sport at a cockfight, 1820. Tom, Jerry and Logic backing Tommy the Sweep at the Royal Cockpit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce Egan's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823.

Three women attacked man; Fighting women. View in a room where three women attack a man. The man tries to flee. Baskets with pots in the foreground.

Prostitution, men break down the door of a London brothel with clubs to avenge a robbery, 1749, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

The twelth night entertainment in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.

A crowd gathered outside Drury Lane Theatre waiting to attend a pantomime for Christmas. Date: December 25th 1858

English Georgian dandies escorting ladies to Hackney carriages outside the Opera House. Gallantry of Tom and Jerry. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce Egan's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823.

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT BRIGHTON

This color print from around 1900 depicts a circus pantomime themed on the Russian-Turkish war, showing performers in costume and stylized action sequences.

MADLLE. CERITO, IN THE BALLET OF 'ALMA'

The drama of the Boulevard des Italians

Illustration of the 1889, Fête des Vignerons (Winegrowers Festival); is a traditional celebration held five times a century in Vevey, Switzerland. It has been organized by the Brotherhood of Winegrowers of Vevey since 1797. The committee is free to choose the time intervals between parties, the maximum being five times per century. Until now, the interval between two parties has varied between 14 and 28 years. The next edition will take place in 2019, 20 years after the previous one (1999); . The show pays tribute to the world of wine, several performances take place on the Market Square along the shores of Lake Geneva.

Arrival at the theater, Chatelet Place, Contreheral Marchand, 1888. (Title Title)

Coronation of Inês de Castro. Scene from a play about the life of Inês de Castro, Minnares by Peter van Portugal. Inês is crowned by the king. Sitting around kneeling figures.

In a Bowery Dime Museum. The lecturer, his freaks, and his audience

Riff-raff competing for bread and wine at the Fete of St. Louis. Evening of the Fete of St. Louis, or Dick, Jenkins and the Halibuts witnessing the Canaille in all their glory. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, Fairburn, London, 1822.

Engraving depicting a scene from "Extravaganza" produced at the Adelphi Theatre, London. The "Model Man" character was based upon Mary Shelly's Frankenstein monster. Dated 19th century

A carnival day in a northern city, According to a stamp of the seventeenth century, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845.

Scene from play De Busaarden Kat, Charles Rochussen, 1865 - 1868 print On the right is the booted cat and points to the royal treasures that are brought to the man and wife on the left. In the background, men blow on trumpets. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Amsterdam paper tales and fairy tales: Puss in boots. theatre, theatrical performance Stadsschouwburg

State Physicians Bleeding John Bull to Death!!, G Cruikshank cartoon 1816. From left: Lord Brougham, Prince Leopold and Princess Charlotte, Chancellor of Exchequer, John Bull, Castlereagh, George IV, Prussia, Austria, Russia taking gold.

Motor font. Dancing and jumping a large number of narrowing, blowing whistling and mouth drum or rolls with balls over the ground. In the foreground a jester that makes a obscene gesture with an owl on hand. In the background right the musicians are on an increase, on the left are some spectators in a gaze. On the right in the background a circular riding school. Different sayings or expressions are depicted in the show. Under the show four four-line verses in Dutch.

Agamemnon and the director of the French Theater (Title) | News. (Title of the whole)

THE GARDENS OF THE PALACE OF THE DEY OF ALGIERS, A SCENE FROM 'ASMODEUS; OR, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS,' AT THE NEW ADELPHI THEATRE

SCENE FROM THE BALLET OF ROBERT AND BERTRAND, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE

News, 1861. (dummy title) | The carnival is finished ...., Why do not you lote your mask .... / I will only raise it until spring! .... (title registered)

Laughing gas, a new comic song

Tom, Jerry and Logic, backing Tommy the Sweep at the Royal Cockpit. The all male audience is focused on the cockfight in the ring. At top right men are betting on the outcome of the match. Illustration by (Isaac) Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank Snr. for 'Life in London' by Pierce Egan (London, 1821). Aquatint.

Dutch cartoon forecasts aeronautic events for the year 1804 by showing people in hysterics, possibly over an imminent balloon ascension by 'Willie van de Heeren Hopmen & Loude'. , Netherlands 1794.

Thure Thulstrup, Popular Concert in Tompkins Square, New York, 1891, wood engraving on paper.

THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE TROUPE AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE, 1868

The cabaret / n ° 6.

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