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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

Fire in the Chikichima Theatre, Tokyo. Victims knocked down and trampled on as people stampede in an attempt to escape the spreading fire. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, c1900.

09/17/1919. Madrid. At the Zarzuela theater. A scene from the Zarzuela in two acts, lyrics by Montero and Moya Rico, music by maestro Vives, "el patio de Monipodio".

Cartoon on the refusal of Raguenot to play in the opera la Juive, 1838, 1838 print Cartoon in response to the refusal of Raguenot to play in the opera 'La Juive', September 6, 1838. Public and musicians for the closed doors of the Royal Schouwburg in The Hague where the performance of the opera on this day expired . Netherlands paper opera. opera house. anti-semitism The Hague. Royal Schouwburg

The Japanese Quadrille being performed, which formed part of the entertainment provided at a children's Christmas party. Date: 1887

An evening performance by the Station band, from Curry and Rice (on Forty Plates) by Captain Geo. F. Atkinson. Date: 1860

A criminal is dragged to the judge on a cowhide, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

The butcher's dance from 1449, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, popular entertainment in the 16th and 17th centuries, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Youth and old age; Salmans prints. Leaf with 2 performances of old people and young children. Under every image a caption. Numbered in the middle above: XXXIII.

Serie Berühmte Tragödien, King Lear von William Shakespeare, Akt V., letzte Szene / Famous Tragedies Series, King Lear by William Shakespeare, Act V., Last Scene, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.

A floor show at the cowboy town of Butte City, Montana. Date: 1886

The Latest Fashion : "Pour Passer le Temps." Tango teas at the Queen's Theatre, London (on Shaftesbury Avenue), where the stalls have been removed and replaced by tables and chairs for afternoon tea. The band is on the stage where tango dances take place. Date: 1913

Scene from the Opera of "Le Val d'Andorre", at the St. James's Theatre, London, 1850. An opera, in three acts: 'Halevy's music is delicious, full of quaint and elegant melodies, scored with consummate skill, and in the concerted pieces rising at times sublimely in dramatic intensity. It is a great work in every sense-pictorial, dramatic, and musical..."Le Val d'Andorre" was completely successful, thanks to an excellent orchestra, Mdlle. Charton, and above all to Chollet. This admirable singer and comedian was for years the attraction of the Opera Comique in Paris...He is

At the Opéra ball, King Louis Philippe (centre) as a clown is confronted by Charles Philipon (right, representing the journal Caricature) and Louis Desnoyers (left, representing the journal Charivari), both dressed as jesters. Lithograph attributed to Korff, 1834.

CHARLES DICKENS "Au Revoir" - Before departing for an American tour, Dickens is bidden farewell to by John Bull and some of the characters from his novels Date: 1867

Gentleman in night clothes struggling in a swimming pool at a stately home, 19th century. Drunken John Jorrocks, the vulgar Cockney grocer, in a nightshirt in a pool, laughted at by other dinner party guests in formal wear. Mr. Jorrocks bath. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees Handley Cross, or Mr. Jorrockss Hunt, Bradbury, Evans and Co., London, 1854.

'Spartacus and Hermann in the Arena', late 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Dancers of the Cambodian Royal Ballet travelled to France in 1906 for the Exposition Colonial de Marseille. Billed as the 'Royal Dancers of King Sisowath', they caused a sensation across France and Europe. Here, represented on the front cover of Le Petit Journal for 24 June, 1906, they are pictured performing 'The Dance of the Nymphs of the Forest'.

Street scene, a circus arrives in the city, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, exact original date not known

Planet ballet. Image of Mercury, dance of fools

Nose dance at a peasant's festival, woodcut, engraving, by Nicholas Meldemann, 1650

Fair theater, Charles Rochussen, 1869 drawing paper. watercolor (paint) brush street. group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage. street. group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage

circus Circus Hagenbeck bellman based on drawing postcard 1912,

Henry VIII dancing with Anne Boleyn at a ball in the old Greenwich Palace in 1527. London. England. digital reproduction of a historical original

Men on a sports field are throwing axes at a statue, a man is whipping a monkey and a band plays in the background. Colour lithograph.

unknown artist, eighteenth century, View of the Orchestra in Vauxhall Gardens, 1778. Engraving.

Box at the Theatre' by Hippolyte Bellange (1800-1866) French painter. Chaotic scene with overcrowded Box with audience fighting . Bottom left a top hat is being handed back. Bottom right a drink is being handed up from the promenade level.

theatre theater comedies and comedians ""Famiglia di Pulcinella"" colour lithograph Italy early 19th century private collection,

Poster for the Opéra comique "Ali Baba" by Charles Lecocq at the Éden-Thétre, 28 November 1889, Anonymous

Folk entertainment at the Bairamfeest, Jan Luyken, 1689 print Print at the top right marked: I. Partie p. 141. print maker: Amsterdampublisher: Paris paper etching public festivities. swing

Blaise husks the bailiffs. (dummy title) | Italian comedy. Blaise the savetier. (title of all)

Johann Sebastian Müller after Samuel Wale, Vauxhall Gardens shewing the Grand Walk at the Entrance of the Garden and the Orchestra with Musick Playing, 1751 Vauxhall Gardens shewing the Grand Walk at the Entrance of the Garden and the Orchestra with Musick Playing

Series of horse dressage in the circus, obstacle race, woman jumps over a clown with her horse, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector'...

Serie Pferdedressur im Zirkus, Hindernissrennen / Series horse dressage in the circus, obstacle racing, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei,.

Village fair, ca. 1610, Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg, after David Vinckboons, 1595 - 1612 print Large performance of the fair in a village. On the right a stage is built up for a theater performance by a rederijkerschappenchap and a farce is performed for the collected audience. The tamboer is on the ladder while the rederijkersblazoen is hung above the stage. With farmers and elegant citizens. Furthermore, dancing farmers, a meal for an inn, making music, drinking, children playing and vomiting. In the background a riding competition or bird cutting. With caption in Latin and Dutch. print maker: Leidenpublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving pleasure fair and circus. performance in the open air (pleasure fair). 'pull-the-goose'. folk dancing (men and women together)

France, 19th century. Caricature of a modern Ossian and of street singers. Engraving, 1806.

Charity concert held in Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1869, France, Charity concert held in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, Europe

In the foreground a cheerful company. Drunk, sung and music is being played. Left in the foreground a jester with a narroller hood. The lost son wastes all his money by leading a loose life in this cheerful company. In the background he is being hunted by three women. The print has a Latin caption.

Fire Rider in Sardinia, Italy, 1890, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, original date unknown, Europe

Signior Harlequino Pantomime, Monsieur Cacufogo Custard-Cap, Scaramouche. Prints, Cartoons (Commentary). 1730 - 1739. George Arents Collection. Actors, Theatrical productions, Fictitious characters, Pantomimes

Two musical and two dancing puts, leaf from the "Neuw Grottensken book". .

Cartoon on the public intoxication, 1903; Street tragic. Cartoon on Public Drunkenness, 1903. A drunk woman is drained through the audience through four police officers. With two-legged caption. Appeared as an attachment of the weekblad 'Blue Monday' of 9 November. 1903.

The Russian Dance Horovod, Horovod, Russia, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original, Europe

NEGRO FUSILADO EN EL TEATRO - GRABADO COLOREADO - SIGLO XX. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

The lost son is driven; The lost Son. The lost son is hunted by light cages with brooms. Under the show a two-legged French-speaking verse. This print is part of a series of prints around the parable of the lost son, consisting of a title print and ten narrative performances.

''Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly''. Illustration from poster for 1870 theatrical production. Eliza carries son across Ohio river, escaping the slave trader Haley. Chromolithograph. Colour'

ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA/AMERICANA - 1896 - UNA NOCHE DE ESTRENO EN EL TEATRO APOLO - GRABADO SIGLO XIX. Author: FRANCISCO LAPORTA VALOR (1849-1914).

Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare

The Carnival in Cologne, Carnival procession in 1880, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Europe

Theater of varieties, Chilperic, Opera Food Alfred Choubrac (1853-1902); L. Weyl; Printing G. Massias. "Theater of varieties, Chilperic, Opera Bouffe". Poster. Color lithography.

Methods of torture in Africa, A man is forced to catch a very hot iron ring with his bare hands over a cauldron over a fire, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

A Carnival Scene (with Medicine lampooned) in Bogota, Colombia. Francois Desire Roulin (1796-1874). Painted circa 1822-28. 19.8 x 27cm.

The famous Viennese artiste, Nestroy in a parody of the umbrella

Picture series Opera Scenes 1, Le Cid, Massenet, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from ca 1900

An English Country Performance of Macbeth. Artist: After William Henry Pyne (British, London 1770-1843 Middlesex). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed within plate): 15 11/16 × 19 7/16 in. (39.8 × 49.4 cm). Etcher: J. Wright (British, active 1788-90). Publisher: Thomas Martyn (British, active 1760-1816). Subject: William Shakespeare (British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564-1616 Stratford-upon-Avon). Date: 1790.Shakespeare's wide popularity around 1790 is demonstrated by this satire. A provincial audience crowds a barn-like theater to attend a performance of Macbeth. We view the scene from backstage as the three witches emerge from a trap door. At left, unseen by the audience, a prompter sits on a barrel as players mend a costume, smoke, and having their hair dressed. At right, peeking around a flat, a booted and cloaked figure who may be Macbeth, waits to come on. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Dance of the Hard Pressed, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

The assassination of the Queen of England 1882, Roderick Mclean shoots at the Queen sitting in a carriage, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, The assassination of the Queen of England 1882, Roderick Mclean shoots at the Queen sitting in a carriage, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Solid evening entertainment / fastening. Leaf with 3 horizontal carnival performances of figures in costumes, the ox, prince carnival and a corpse. Numbered bottom left: No. 23.

Gamblers watching a cockfight by candlelight at the Cock Pit Royal, St. James, London, 1796. Copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Samuel Howitt from The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf and the Chace, John Wheble, London, 1797.

Historia Antigua. Grecia. Teatro, representación de Agamemnon. Grabado alemán de 1865.

'Farceurs' French and Italian characters from the Comedia del Arte. The Captain 5th from left, Harlequin 6th from left. French playwright Moliere (1622-73) on left. Anonymous: 17th century. Oil on canvas, 1670. Comedie Francais collection

"A MASS OF GOLD AND A CROWD OF HANDS" AT A CASINO, 1886

Illustration showing a number of scenes from 'Myers Great Hippodrome' circus of 1879. The main image (at bottom) shows the 'Grand Parade of All Nations', with a number of lavish horse-drawn carriages circling the arena and a group of performing elephants in the centre. The scenes at top left show John Cooper and his lions and a performance carriage. At top,centre, Mrs. Rose Myers is shown riding 'Cromwell' over a jump. At top right, a 'Roman Chariot race' and a 'Ladies Flat Race'. Da

An English Country Performance of Macbeth 1790 J. Wright Shakespeare's wide popularity around 1790 is demonstrated by this satire. A provincial audience crowds a barn-like theater to attend a performance of Macbeth. We view the scene from backstage as the three witches emerge from a trap door. At left, unseen by the audience, a prompter sits on a barrel as players mend a costume, smoke, and having their hair dressed. At right, peeking around a flat, a booted and cloaked figure who may be Macbeth, waits to come on.. An English Country Performance of Macbeth 713071

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.

Circus tent blown away, Saint Etienne, France, 1903. Artist: Unknown

Lynching scene in the United States - a black man shot on a theater stage, circa 1911

Miolan and Janinet sold tickets for balloon flight Paris, 11 July 1784. At five in the afternoon, balloon still on the ground, crowd lost patience and set it alight. From 'Histoire des Ballons' by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1887. Aviation

Scene from a comedy. still image. 1736. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Theater , Rome, Stage props, Masks , Roman, Comedies, Theatrical productions , Rome , To 499, costumes , Roman+, Actors , Roman+ , To 499

The tightrope walker, artists performing around 1800, circus, travelling circus, painting by Leonard Defrance, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th or 19th century original

Bailed up! A contemporary illustration of the early convict bushranger for which Jemmy Green is mistaken in a scene from James Tucker's play, Jemmy Green in Australia. January 27, 1955.

Paris, France - Boulevard du Temple. Date: 1862

March d'Aika Amazonian, as performed in The white faun, at Niblos, N.Y. Prints, Sheet music covers. 1868. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Niblo's Garden Theatre, Mortimer, James. The white fawn, Ballet , 19th century

The dance of death: the death blow. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1816.

Roderick McClean shooting at Queen Victoria at Windsor railway station. From The Illustrated London News, 11 March 1882.

A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty", 1812.

The Sabre Dance', 1872. A print from Cairo and High-Egypt. By the French artist Alfred-Henri Darjou.

Oxford and Cambridge chess match, United Kingdom, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London News, volume LXII, April 5, 1873. Digitally colorized image.

Scene from the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Paris, Thétre de l'Opéra-Le Peletier, 11.03.1867, Anonymous

Chinese mountebank riding a boat on land accompanied by a musician playing a recorder, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Joseph Breton's China, Its Costumes, Arts, Manufactures, etc., Howlett and Brimmer, London, 1824.

Picture series operas: Die Meistersinger von Bürnberg, das Preislied, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collective picture from ...

Battle Between Carnival and Lent, Jheronimus Bosch (Manner of), c. 1600 - c. 1620 painting The fight between carnival and fasting. In a kitchen, a bagpipe player is carried in, around it many dancing and drinking people, including a jerk. On the right wears a figure with a leaf with fish and plays a man on a lute. panel. oil paint (paint) strife of Lent and Carnival. bagpipe, musette. Carnival, Shrovetide (non-liturgical celebration). court jester, court fool

A fete for children in Victoria Park, East London, in celebration of the Coronation of King Edward VII on 24 June 1902. Entertainment was provided by a number of music hall stars who dressed up for a comic clown's cricket match. While the fete was underway, the news came that the king was ill with appendicitis. Date: 1902

Divertissemens du carnival / fastening entertainment / convoi funère de carnival / fast night lyschstation. Leaf with 3 horizontal carnival performances of figures in costumes, the ox, prince carnival and a corpse. Numbered in the middle above: N. 99.

Engraving showing a circus procession heading towards the 'Big Top' at the start of a show, in an English country town, c.1886. This picture shows a performer standing astride two horses, with another pair in hand as well. Date: 1886

Gallery of the world for laughter (IT)

Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French brothers, inventors of the hot-air balloon. From a trading card commemorating the centenary of their first public demonstration in Annonay on 4 June 1783. Aviation Flying Aviation Ballooning

Spectacular production at the Hippodrome, Paris, reminiscent of a Roman circus in the time of Nero. Lion tamer posing with three lions. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 23 May 1891. France, Entertainment

A troupe of blind musicians and their dogs confronting a rival street musician and his dog. Lithograph by Engelmann after S. Baptiste, 1828.

Theater in the open air at Nam Dinh. Tonkin, French Indochina. Vietnam, Asia. Thirty months in Tonkin 1885 by Doctor Charles Edouard Hocquard (1853 - 1911) Le Tour du Monde 1890

A flemish fair with a performance of the farce "A cluyte of plaeyerwater", Peeter Baltens, c. 1570 painting Farming fair on a village square. On stage in the middle a performance of the farce 'a cluyte of plaeyerwater'. Furthermore, scenes with food, drinks, dancing, making love, cooking, making music and fighting. On the left a procession with an image of saints along an inn. For the church market stalls and a group of shooters. panel. oil paint (paint) performance in the open air (pleasure fair). group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage. folk dancing (men and women together)

Picture series Othello, opera by Verdi, act 1, Othello lands in Cyprus, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

Picture series From the life of Mozart, listening to the famous Miserere by Allegri in Rome, 1771, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from c. 1900, in the public domain, exact date unknown

Lurid American theatrical poster published by Strobridge & Co., Cincinatti and New York, 1897.

Lincoln and the Contrabands, Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, 1863.

Pizarro: I Will Cool The Revenge (From Beethoven's Opera "Fidelio", Act 2, Scene 8) C. 1895 Artist Unknown Color Lithograph

Picture series Simson and Delila, opera by Saint Saens, Delila calls Herbei Philister, zu mir, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's pictur...

Picture series Simson and Delila, opera by Saint Saens, Delila calls Herbei Philister, zu mir, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Serie Oper Tannhäuser, Wolfram von Eschenbach erkennt den Zurückgekehrten / Series opera Tannhäuser, Wolfram von Eschenbach recognizes the returnee, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei, genaues Datum unbekannt.

Series Opera Tannhäuser, Return of the Pilgrims from Rome, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, Liebig collector's p...

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