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  • Dancers possibly Marathas. Gouache drawing.
  • Ballet dancers preparing to perform. Wood engraving.
  • Siam (Thailand]): two dancers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam (Thailand]): two dancers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Sri Lanka: traditional 'devil dancers' in costume. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Burma: a sanctuary (?) with towers, temples, musicians and dancers. Gouache painting.
  • Burma: musicians and dancers perform while courtiers pay homage to a king. Gouache painting.
  • A procession of dancers following a music-making Death. Etching by A.W. Thompson, 1867.
  • Giza, Egypt: a dance by sword dancers in the commandant's house. Watercolour by Luigi Mayer, 17--.
  • The Maidan park, Calcutta, India: traditional Bhutan Devil dancers, some wearing masks: group portrait. Photograph, 1906.
  • A doctor goes off gallivanting with two young dancers. Colour process print after by J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Pharmaceutical bill-head of Injection Brou: the head of Hippocrates, a couple in a forest and ballet dancers. Etching, 186-.
  • Javanese dancers, with men on the left and women on the right, accompanied by a musician. Engraving by T. de Bry.
  • Semi-naked men and women from the dance company Momix Dancers use their bodies to form the words 'Stop AIDS Now', an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfen Österreichischs. Colour lithograph by Claudio Alessandri Design, ca. 1995.
  • Oscar Sabo dressed as a woman with Josefine Dora dressed as a man, as flamenco dancers. Photographic postcard by L. Willinger, 192-.
  • Oscar Sabo dressed as a woman with Josefine Dora dressed as a man, as flamenco dancers. Photographic postcard by L. Willinger, 192-.
  • Cave paintings; a group of female musicians and dancers and Buddhist monks (?) of Indo-African origin. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A group of Bundu female dancers all wearing necklaces of beads which are filled with medicines. Halftone after a photograph by T.J. Alldridge.
  • 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.
  • The Maidan park, Calcutta, India: traditional Sikkim Devil dancers performing for King George V and Queen Mary (then the Prince and Princess of Wales) on their visit in 1906. Photograph, 1906.
  • Two of the cleverest dwarfs ever before the public, none excepted, most intelligent, most symmetrically formed, most pleasing & pleasant in appearance & conversation & the most accomplished actors, expert & skilful swordsmen, graceful dancers & fine pantomimists : Count Rosebud, Baron Little Finger.
  • Musicians and lady dancer
  • George Dancer Thane. Photograph, 1880.
  • Thomas Dancer. Stipple engraving by Holl.
  • George Dancer Thane. Photograph, 1884 (?).
  • Ceylon: Tamil devil dancer. Photograph, ca. 1906.
  • Daniel Dancer, a miser. Etching by G. Scott, 1805.
  • Daniel Dancer, a miser. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1821.
  • Serowe, Botswana: an African devil dancer wearing a headdress. Albumen print.
  • Mr. Lambkin (right) being introduced to a ballet dancer. Lithograph after G. Cruikshank.