U. K.
Bouvier, Joseph (after a print by)
Fanny Cerrito in the ballet “Alma ou la fille du feu”
Print, lithograph, color
1842, 31 x 23.5 cm
Piper, John
Backcloth design for the revival of the ballet “Job”
Painting, 1948
U.K., London
Furniss, H. (drawing)
The last dance – that boy Tommy gives us an electric shock
Print, woodcut 1879, 7.5 x 16.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
The March of Science: Electricity at Christmas
Macquoid, Percy (drawing)
In the winter lead a merry life, you dance and with your neighbour’s wife
Print, color 1891, 11.5 x 23.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Hammond, Aubrey (drawing)
“The Lowlands have a few artless jigs”
Print 1926, 6 x 4 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Cruikshank, George (drawing)
The Mistletoe Sprig of Oldstone Hall
Print, woodcut 1879, 10.3 x 19.4 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
The Favourite Comic Dance
Print, etching 1807
“John Peter Bologna (1775-1846) as Harlequin disguised as a St. Giles street girl and Joseph Grimaldi (1779-1837) as Clown in “”Harlequin and Mother Goose”” or “”The Golden Egg””. This dance was a parody of a pas de deux in the ballet “”Achille et Deidamie””.”
“Next they have a “”country dance””, some of the gentlemen appearing in shoes borrowed from the jovial host…”
Print, colour 1885,17 x 23.5
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Palfrey, Dafydd
Reel step
Drawing 1990
S2660 France
Marcelin (drawing)
Opera. Sacountala. Mrs. Ferraris and the young prince walking around the garden
Opéra. Sacountala. Mme Ferraris et le jeune prince faisant un tour de jardin
Print, wood 1858 7 x 8 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
The polka in England
La polka en Angleterre
Η πόλκα στην Αγγλία
Print 1849 14 x 16.5 cm
Meadows, Kenny (drawing); Linton, W. J. (engraving)
First of April
Πρωταπριλιά
Print 1847 36.5 x 24.1 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Thackeray, W, M.
Dancer leaping off a cliff into space
Print 1832
The Association for the Revival of Classical Dancing
Print, sketch, cartoon 1909
Ambrose, Kay
Drawings for dancers only – Uninitiated please skip
Drawing 1945
Ambrose, Kay Symphonic ballet, photographer’s view
Drawing 1940
Ambrose Kay
Photographer and ballerina
Drawing 1945
Ambrose, Kay The dancer’s day
Drawing 1945
Baltzer, B.
Lola Montez displays her dancing capacities
Print 1845
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
Boswell and two Highlanders dancing a reel at the top of Dun Caan, a mountain on the Isle of Raasay
Print 1775 approximately
From Boswell’s journey to Scotland, during the summer of 1773
Ludwig, king of Bavaria, bidding farewell to his mistress Lola Montez
Print 1847
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
A pas-de-deux by King Ludwig and Lola Montez
Print 1847
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
Ludwig, king of Bavaria, and his mistress Lola Montez
Print 1847
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
Stek, W.
The apotheosis of Lola Montez
Print 1846
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
“Vivat Lola! Pereat Loyola!”. Lola Montez against the Jesuits”
Print 1846
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse.
The old Luther (Ludwig of Bavaria) and the new Pompadour (Lola Montez)
Print 1847
Mainz Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
Seitz, Franz
Lola Montez on the shoulders of captain Bauer on the way to hell.
The fallen angel
Der Engelsturz
Print 1848
In heavens are shown students and professors of the University of Munich
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
King Ludwig of Bavaria naming Lola Montez countess of Landsfeld
Print 1846
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse.
Hints to climbers: How to attract notice. Wear costumes designed by M. Leon Bakst, who, we hear, is adding to his triumphs in the field of Russian Ballet by creating models for a Parisian modiste
Print, sketch 1915
“Lola Montez to Peissner: “I want the crown, you will become minister!”
Print 1848
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse.
The tango in the ball-room, as letters in the papers from amateur social reformers would have us imagine it… and as we have actually seen it
Print, sketch 1913
Lola Montez leaving Bavaria
Print 1848
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
Barnard, F. (drawing)
The reel
La ronde
Ο κυκλικός χορός
Print, wood 1892 31.5 x 23.4 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
nard, F. (drawing); Swain (engraving)
Am equal footing. A Christmas dance at a country house
Print, wood 1891 31.5 x 44.3 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Christmas celebrations in London
Morin, Edmond & Roeven, E.
Les fêtes de Christmas, à Londres – Détail
Print, wood 1864 12 x 9.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Barnard, F. (drawing)
The ideal
Print, wood 1892 31.4 x 23.2 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Hammond, Aubrey (drawing)
Folk dances
Print, mono 1926, 11 x 5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
The English Folk Dance Society began the New Year with an All-England Festival at the Imperial Institute, London U.K
Ridgewell (drawing)
“The Hon. Cynthia Screamly stages a select “”Coroboree”” dance on Mitcham Common for film purposes”
Print 1928
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Cottrell, Tom (drawing)
A true blue conservative Christmas troupe. The Chamberlains – simultaneous dancers
Print 1928 16.5 x 11.3 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Moorsom (drawing)
All the world’s a crush: Where dress does not make a difference
Print, lithograph, colour 1928
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Hammond, Aubrey (drawing)
Make the farmer shake his hips
Print 1925 9 x 7 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Morton (drawing)
The Prince remarked to her…
Print 1928 12.2 x 8.9 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Lyrics from the revue “Many happy returns” by Herbert Farjeon, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London“
“European cabaret: The dance of destruction, with Versailles Tribute and Prohibitive Tariffs crushing industries. “”Kladderadatsc”””
Print 1931 12 x 8.8 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Gilbert or Bab (drawing)
“Gilbert’s own idea of the attorneys in “”Trial by jury””, as illustrated by him – as “Bab” – in “Fun”, 11/04/1868″
Print 1925 3.5 x 11.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
The jubilee of Savoy Opera by the chairman of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society
The worship of the Golden Calf
Print 1931 13 x 10.8 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
World finance as seen in a strictly apocalyptic League of Nations history round
Teddy (drawing)
A male artist’s idea of a meeting of young women voters to discuss the General Election
Print 1929, 12.5 x 12 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
“Illustration for the article “”Bright red young people. Rushing to the political freak party – Labor and the business-woman voter”” by Lady Eleanor Smith”
Bateman, H. M. (drawing)
An author and his wife, by an artist friend. A humorous drawing by Mr. H. M. Bateman of the late Mr. William Caine, the gifted writer, and his wife.
Print 1926 8 x 12 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Dort, J. L. K. Van (sketch)
Our volunteers in Ceylon and their experiences of life in camp. The Cafrinhoe – the ta-ra-ra of Ceylon
Print, woodcut 1893 8.5 x 11.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Humors of campaigning in Burma.
A Phoongie finally dances the Highland Fling in Burmese
Print, woodcut 1886 8 x 7 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
“Hoping much from the varied excitement of the cotillion, we next took him to a dance; but when a beautiful girl threw down an orange with the object of taking as a partner the successful scrambler…”
Print, color 1882 17 x 26.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
…after the golden fruit, he only gaped.
“Lady Di “”does her bit”” in a sweet little dance…”
Print 1918; 11 x 9 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Mr. Aldgate-Lothbury in the Highlands
He takes a few lessons in reel dancing, gets into dificulties
Print, wood 1882 7.6 x 22.4 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
“Rehearsing for the pantomime at Drury Lane Theatre. “”Quicker!”
Print, color 1885 11.9 x 17.7
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
An afternoon dance on board a man-of-war – The young lady who had her card filled before going on board
Print 1882 10 x 7.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Sketches at a Hunt ball
Print 1891, 30.1 x 22.4
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Advertisement for St. Jacobs Oil
Print 1890 11.5 x 11.5
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
The Misses McCarty were able to give a large party / On the First of December at ten ; / And Grandfather McCarty, now quite hale and hearty, / Was the central figure therein.
Cleaver, Reginald (drawing)
My first dance
Print, color 1891 33.3 x 22.6
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
A question of the day – Have dances drawbacks?
Print 1891, 29.5 x 23
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Notes from a subaltern’s diary. Much to the satisfaction of the Juniors
Print 1885 11.5 x 14
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
How I went on a voyage in search of a wife. Confound that gold lace
Print 1891 8 x 6.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Effects of the aboriginal war-dance on the other lodgers
Print 1875, 7 x 11.3 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
The last carouse of the Aboriginal Wideawakes
Print 1875, 6.9 x 11.2
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Illustration from a novel
“Polka “in extremis”. The honor of her hand”
Print, colour 1884 8 x 13.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Mr. Blunderbore in society
Holub, Dr. Emil (sketch)
A critical moment. The Diluka Chief dances with rage and curses the Europeans. Dr. Holub imitates him till the natives laugh and abandon their hostile intentions
Print 1887, 3.6 x 5.2 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Dr. Emil Holub’s travels in the Zambesi Region, South Africa. The present journey occupied over three years. Doctor and Mrs. Holub left Europe in November 1883 for Cape Town. From there he traveled to Lake Bangweolo, through Mashukulumbe territory north of the Zambesi
Parkinson, W. junior (drawing)
Four wonderful ball room improvements
Print 1884 33 x 22.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Tooting’s kilt. His first and last reel
Print 1884 9 x 11.3 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Friston, D. H. (drawing)
“Scene from “”The happy land””, at the Court Theater”
Print, woodcut 1873 16.2 x 24 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Passages in the life of a subaltern. Of course I tumble the first ball I go to in uniform, and don’t know how to get up gracefully
Print 1874 6.8 x 11.2 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Smith, R. (drawing)
“Fanny Cerrito in the ballet “La vivandière”
Print 1844
U.K.
“Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, in “”The pas de tambourine and carving-knife””, at the Lyceum Theater”
Print, woodcut 1844 12 x 15 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
From the burlesque theater piece “Open sesame”
The celebrated Mademoiselle G-m-rd or Grimhard from Paris (Marie-Madeleine Guimard)
Print 1789
“Sketches from the new burlesque “”Miss Esmeralda””, at the Gaiety Theater. Miss Marion Hood, Mr E. J. Lonnen, Miss F. Leslie”
Print, woodcut 1887 17.8 x 24.2 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Collet, John (drawing)
Grown gentlemen taught to dance
Print, lithograph 1769
“Poem and caricatures for the ballet “”Le jugement de Pâris”””
Print, woodcut 1847
Kajetan
Lola Montez leaving Bavaria on her way to the underworld
Print 1848
Rauh, Reinhold: Lola Montez. Die königliche Mätresse
Scholz, Wilhelm
Lola Montez, Emma Herwegh and Louise Aston
Η Λόλα Μοντέζ, η Εμμα Χερβεγκ και η Λουίζ Αστον
Print 1848
Palfrey, Dafydd
Reel step
Drawing 1990
“Scene from the burlesque of “Aladdin, or The wonderful lamp”, at the Lyceum
Print, woodcut 1844 11.2 x 15.6 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Marcelin (drawing)
Opera. Sacountala. Mrs. Ferraris and the young prince walking around the garden
Opéra. Sacountala. Mme Ferraris et le jeune prince faisant un tour de jardin
Print, wood 1858 7 x 8 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Burra, Edward
Dancing skeletons
Σκελετοί που χορεύεουν
Painting, gouache, 1934, 78.7 x 55.9 cm
U.K., London
The Association for the Revival of Classical Dancing
Print, sketch, cartoon 1909
An artist’s impression of an old style fair.
Drawing 1980
Lile, Emma: A step in time. Folk dancing in Wales.