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  • Mr. Lambkin drunkenly dancing the polka and knocking over a tray of coffee, while his loved one looks on in a dismayed manner. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • People dancing the tarantella and playing music as an antidote to a tarantula bite. Etching.
  • Krishna playing the flute to a dancing Radha, two holy cows stand behind. Chromolithograph, 1897.
  • Young men and women in Tahiti, dancing. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A group of merry, dancing former invalids discarding their medicines in favour of alcohol as a cure. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1827, after T. Lane.
  • A soldier takes his hat off to a lady at her table but finds that she preferred "les Lanciers". Lithograph by Villain, 1826, after H. Bellangé.
  • A young man plays a harp and an old man plays a violin as two girls dance under a tree watched by fruit pickers. Etching by John Thompson after D. Maclise.
  • A man from the Hawaiian Islands dancing; encountered by Captain Cook during his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by C. Grignion after J. Webber, 1780/1785.
  • Marguerite Agniel posing with her back arched and legs stretched out over her head, wearing a two-piece costume and matching turban, in a photographic studio.
  • A male bodybuilder wearing bathing trunks, striking a "Cossack dance" pose, in a studio setting.
  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • Dancers possibly Marathas. Gouache drawing.
  • Men dancing in front of Captain Cook and members of his crew, on the island of Lifuka (Tonga). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1782.
  • Young men and women in Tahiti, dancing. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Men dancing in front of Captain Cook and members of his crew, on the island of Lifuka (Tonga). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1782.
  • Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).
  • Sarawak: a Kenyah girl dancing. Photograph.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • Important notice! : Edmonds' late Wombwell's Royal Windsor Castle Menagerie, will exhibit at Shrewsbury, on Friday, Saturday, and Monday, August 23rd, 24th, and 26th, and at Wellington, on Tuesday, augiust 27th, 1861, accompanied by that extraordinary race of men, the Zulu Kaffirs, or WILD MEN! of Africa : Maxos and Nonswenzo - who will go through their wonderful and extraordinary performances at each exhibition ...
  • A drunken scene in a dancing hall with a sly customer eyeing a girl. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A nautch dancing girl. Gouache drawing.
  • Musicians and lady dancer
  • An unhappy young child hung on a wall by his nurse, who has gone dancing. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1843.