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  • Ballet dancers preparing to perform. Wood engraving.
  • Edme-Samuel Castaing, the poisoner, and his two victims: Auguste and Hippolite Ballet. Engraving.
  • Fred Roper's wonderful midgets : the china clock ballet.
  • Fred Roper's wonderful midgets : the china clock ballet.
  • A man performing ballet. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man performing ballet. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Mr. Lambkin (right) being introduced to a ballet dancer. Lithograph after G. Cruikshank.
  • Mr. Lambkin (right) being introduced to a ballet dancer. Lithograph after G. Cruikshank.
  • Vaslav Nijinsky, a ballet dancer, in a scene from Gìsèle'. Reproduction of a photograph by Roosen, 1934.
  • Pharmaceutical bill-head of Injection Brou: the head of Hippocrates, a couple in a forest and ballet dancers. Etching, 186-.
  • Roués at the theatre in the company of women dancers, one of whom sits down to tie up her ballet pumps. Process print, ca. 1890.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "The Lilliputian Family" (the Brockstedt family) and General Tom Thumb at Davidge's Royal Surrey Theatre, Kennington Road, London in a ' ballet d'action'].
  • A naked man raises his right leg to hip height in front of him then rotates it round to behind him. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A dancing class: a girl and a boy stand in first position, as the teacher plays the violin. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Coppelia / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Coppelia / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Coppelia / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Le tricorne / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Le tricorne / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Le tricorne / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Prince Igor / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Prince Igor / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • Prince Igor / designed by R.B. Sutcliffe.
  • A doctor goes off gallivanting with two young dancers. Colour process print after by J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • Three men wearing orthopedic apparatus exercising; another is strapped into leg braces. Aquatint by P. Sandby (?), 1783.
  • An equestrian entertainment in the Boboli gardens, Florence, celebrating the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany and Vittoria della Rovere, 1637: the carriage viewed against the Pitti Palace, the arena, and bird's eye views of the formations. Etching by S. Della Bella after A. Ricci and F. Gambrai.
  • A French prisoner of war posing in drag at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.