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Concept

Dance

Images

  • Two women dance the salterello as another plays the tambourine. Lithograph after Mlle. Lescot, 1818.
  • Chang, the great Fychow galop.
  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • A troupe of nautch dancing girls, standing in a line holding hands, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Two couples in a dance position. Ink drawing.
All images (112)

Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two Dutch men dancing together, accompanied by an accordionist. Colour photographic postcard, 190-.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1909?] | Reference: 2060401i
    Part of: James Gardiner Collection: Romantic fantasy and comic postcards, and photographs on gender and masculinity.
    • Ephemera

    Physical Therapies (various) ephemera. Box 1.

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

    Boilard, active approximately 1720. | Reference: 20262i
    • Pictures

    A woman, reclining on a rustic chair, wearing a fringed shawl, in front of a painted backdrop in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 530563i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Audio

    Seeing and doing : / preservation.

    | Date: 2004
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