BAGDANOFF:1645. Bloch, E. ‘NADEJDA BAGDANOFF’ as Esmeralda in the two act ballet
Esmeralda. Berlin, Eduard Bloch, ca. 1860 [24377] Full coloured lithograph, 20 x 15 cm. £90
Nadejda Bagdanoff (1834-96), Russian actress and dancer in St. Petersburg. |
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CAROLINE:1646. Jacomme. ‘Melle. CAROLINE role de
COLOMBINE’. Full length portrait. Paris, Maison Martinet ca. 1840 [25747] Full colour
engraving by Jacomme, 20 x 13 cm. £75
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CELESTE:1648. Drummond, W. ‘MADAME CELESTE AS THE ARAB BOY’. The celebrated French Dancer and Actress in her most famous role. McLean ca. 1858 [25753] Full colour lithograph
by William Drummond with a gold border, 38 x 28 cm. £395
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CERITO:1649. Heath, Ch. ‘CERITO. ONDINE’. Full length portrait of Fanny
Cerito, the ballet dancer. Charles Heath, London 1845 [24360] 22 x 16 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving by W. H. Mete after Edwin D. Smith with decorative border from the ‘Beauties of the Opera & Ballet’, edited by Charles Heath. £75
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CERITO:1650. Anonymous. ‘NEAPOLITAN GIRL (Cerito as
Fenella)’. T. H. Lacy, London ca. 1860 [26489] 17 x 13 cm. Coloured engraving. Excellent condition. £60
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CHOLLET:1651. Lacauchie, A. ‘CHOLLET’. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Full length image of the ballet dancer in costume, in ‘Le Postillon de
Lonjumeau’. Paris ca. 1840 [24313] Uncoloured lithograph by Alexandre
Lacauchie, 25 x 16 cm. £90
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DANCE COSTUME:1652. Mansion, I. ‘AUSTRIA,
SCHLAVONIA’. An Austrian / Slavonian girl in a very colourful dance costume. Ackermann, London 1831 [26756] 20 x 15 cm. Original coloured lithograph. Excellent condition. £60
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DANCE LESSON:1653. Heilbuth, F. ‘LA LECON DE DANCE’. Interior scene with man playing a violin, a young girl dancing in the foreground and a woman seated on a chair, tatting. Engraved by Hermann Eichens after Ferdinand Heilbuth and published by Goupil in Paris ca. 1859 [26733] 56 x 46 cm. Large etching and stipple engraving with aquatint, printed before text. Excellent condition. £300
Ferdinand Heilbuth (1826-89), German painter. |
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DUVERNAY:1655. Arnold, I. B. ‘THE CACHOUCHA DANCE’. Frontispiece for a music cover depicting the ballerina Pauline Duvernay in Spanish costume, dancing the
Cachoucha. Drawn and lithographed by W. Clerk. London, George & Manby, c 1850 [24371] Original coloured lithograph, 22 x 18 cm. (image) £175
Pauline Duvernay (1812-94), French ballerina. |
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EBEL:1656. Bloch, E. ‘WILHELM EBEL’ as Graf Morgano in
Morgano, a fantasy ballet in three acts and a prologue from Paul Taglioni. Berlin, Eduard Bloch ca. 1860 [24381] Full coloured lithograph, 20 x 15 cm. £90
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ELSSLER:1657. Geiger, A. ‘FANNY ELSSLER IN DER CACHUCHA’. Original handcoloured engraving by Andreas Geiger and published in the Wiener Theaterzeitung ca. 1830 [19772] 21 x 14 cm. £200
Fanny Elssler was a famous ballerina of Austrian origin. |
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ELSSLER:1661. Heath, Ch. ‘FANNY ELSSLER.
FLORINDE’. Full length portrait of Elssler, the ballet dancer. Charles Heath, London 1845 [24359] 22 x 16 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving by W. H. Mete after Edwin D. Smith with decorative border from the ‘Beauties of the Opera & Ballet’, edited by Charles Heath. £95
Fanny Elssler was a famous ballerina of Austrian origin. |
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ELSSLER:1662. Wiener Theaterzeitung. ‘FANNY
ELSSLER’ dancing the ‘Cracovienne’. Original coloured engraving issued with the Wiener Theaterzeitung ca. 1850 [19765] 20 x 17 cm. Previously folded. £200
Austrian ballerina of international renown, known especially for her Spanish cachucha, introduced in 1836 in Le Diable
Boiteaux. Her performances in La Tarentule, La Gypsy, Giselle and Esmeralda were especially noted. |
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FOLK-DANCING:1664. Sharp, C. J. ‘KIRKBY SWORD DANCE’. From a set of English Folk Dances, ‘Mr North’s
Maggott’, pictured by S. Kennedy North, with an introduction by Cecil J. Sharp. London 1921 [26745] 14 x 23 cm. Original engraving, printed in full
colours, excellent condition. £60
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FOLK-DANCING:1665. Sharp, C. J. ‘CONSTANT BILLY’. From a set of English Folk Dances, ‘Mr North’s
Maggott’, pictured by S. Kennedy North, with an introduction by Cecil J. Sharp. London 1921 [26748] 14 x 23 cm. Original engraving, printed in full
colours, excellent condition. £60
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FOLK-DANCING:1666. Sharp, C. J. ‘THE ROSE’. From a set of English Folk Dances, ‘Mr North’s
Maggott’, pictured by S. Kennedy North, with an introduction by Cecil J. Sharp. London 1921 [26751] 14 x 23 cm. Original engraving, printed in full
colours. Excellent condition. £60
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FRIDEBERG:1667. Bloch, E. ‘CATHARINA FRIDEBERG’ as Catharina in ‘The Bandits Daughter’ a ballet in three acts from Jules
Perrot. Performed at the Kaiserliches Hoftheater in St Petersburg. Berlin, Eduard Bloch, ca. 1860 [24375] Full coloured lithograph, 20 x 15 cm. £90
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GRISI:1669. Heath, Ch. ‘CARLOTTA GRISI. LA GISELLE’. Full length portrait of
Grisi, the ballet dancer. Charles Heath, London 1845 [24358] 22 x 16 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving by H. Robinson after Alfred Edward Chalon with decorative border from the ‘Beauties of the Opera & Ballet’, edited by Charles Heath. £95
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GRISI - PERROT:1670. Hanhart, M. & N. ‘THE OPERA POLKA, AS DANCED BY Mlle CARLOTTA GRISI & M.
PERROT’. Front music cover with decorative border, depicting the two dancers. Jullien, London ca 1850 [26487] 33 x 25 cm. Coloured lithograph. £90
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INDIAN DANCING:1671. Geiger, A. ‘DIE BAJADEREN AUS
INDIEN’. Indian Temple Dancers. Bureau der Theaterzeitung, ca. 1820 [26753] 19 x 26 cm. Original coloured engraving by Andreas Geiger after
Schoeller. £125
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LEROUX:1673. Lacauchie, A. ‘PAULINE LEROUX’. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Full length image of the French ballet dancer in costume, dancing in Le Diable
Amoureux. Paris ca. 1840 [24316] Uncoloured lithograph by Rigo Freres, 25 x 16 cm. £125
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MAZURKA:1674. Jullien. ‘THE VARSOVIEN MAZURKA’, composed and dedicated to Monsieur Paris of Manchester. Front music cover with a fine image of Grisi & Perrot dancing. Jullien, London ca. 1860 [26764] 33 x 24 cm. Coloured lithograph by Brandard with decorative border. Left outside border slightly damaged, but not affecting main image. £125
Carlotta Grisi (1819-99), Italian ballet dancer. Trained at Teatro alla Scala’s ballet school in Milano and later with balletmaster and choreographer Jules Perot. Especially noted for her role as Giselle. |
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MAZURKA:1675. Jullien. ‘NO 1 JULLIEN’S ORIGINAL MAZURKA, or the CELLARIUS
VALSE’. Dedicated to Monsr. E. Coulon, composed by Jullien. Front music cover with a fine image of Grisi & Perrot and another couple dancing. Jullien, London ca. 1860 [26765] 33 x 24 cm. Coloured lithograph with decorative border. Left outside border slightly damaged, but not affecting main image. £125
Carlotta Grisi (1819-99), Italian ballet dancer. Trained at Teatro alla Scala’s ballet school in Milano and later with balletmaster and choreographer Jules Perot. Especially noted for her role as Giselle. |
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MULLER:1676. Bloch, E. ‘CHARLES MULLER’ as Carlo in
Satanella, a ballet in three acts from Paul Taglioni. Berlin, Eduard Bloch ca. 1860 [24379] Full coloured lithograph, 20 x 15 cm. £90
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PAVANE:1677. Toudouze. E. ‘THE PAVANE’. An original etching by Pierre Augustine Massé after Edouard
Toudouze. Art Journal 1886 [26757] 20 x 26 cm. Uncoloured etching. £60
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PAVLOVA:1678. Lavery, J. ‘ANNA PAVLOVA, THE GREAT RUSSIAN DANCER’. Head to waist portrait by John
Lavery, specially painted from life for The Illustrated London News, ca. 1911 [26768] 47 x 31 cm. Printed in full
colours. Excellent condition. £100
The celebrated Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1882-1931) danced in London with Sergei Diaghilev's company for the first time in the summer of 1910. She caused a sensation with her Dance Bacchanal from Pepita's ballet The Seasons. |
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PEREA-NENA:1679. Brandard, J. ‘THE PEREA NENA POLKA’ by Carl Höchst. Music cover showing a ballet scene with dancers in Spanish costume. M. & N. Hanhart, ca. 1850 [24372] Original full coloured lithograph by John
Brandard, 31 x 24 cm. £125
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PERROT:1680. Schoeller. ‘SCENE AUS DEM KOBOLD, FEENBALLET IN ZWEI ABTHEILUNGEN UND FÜNF TABLEAUX VON
HRN. J. PERROT’.
A dancer is balancing on a spinning wheel whilst the ballerina looks on in admiration. Scene from the ‘Kobold’, a fairy ballet in two acts and five scenes by Jules
Perrot. Wiener Theaterzeitung, ca. 1800 [26486] 18 x 24 cm. Original hand coloured engraving by Andreas Geiger after
Schoeller. Excellent condition. £180
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PERROT:1681. Lacauchie, A. ‘PERROT’. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Full length image of the ballet dancer in costume. Paris ca. 1840 [24312] Uncoloured lithograph by Rigo
Freres, 25 x 16 cm. £125
Jules Perrot was born in France in 1810. He studied with Auguste Vestris and Salvatore
Vigano, two of the principal exponents of expressive ballet (as opposed to pure or formal ballet). He made his debut in 1830 at the Paris Opera, where, despite the period's prejudice against male dancers, he was highly applauded for both his classical and his mime dancing. He went on to be a great choreographer. |
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POLKA:1682. Werner Korponay de Komonka, M. de. ‘THE FAVOURITE AMERICAN POLKA’ as danced by Mlle Pauline Desjardins and Mons Gabriel de
Corponay. Composed for the piano and dedicated to Chevalier de Hulsemann, Charge d’Affaires to the Court of Austria, by Marie De Werner Korponay de
Komonka. Lithograph, showing the dancers in various positions. Firth & Hall, New York, ca. 1845 [26758] 29 x 23 cm. Uncoloured lithograph complete with music. £175
Gabriel and Pauline are credited for introducing the Polka to the United States in 1844. De Korponay was a retired /exiled officer in the Hungarian Army who later became Colonel of the American Army's 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
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POLKA:1683. Hanhart, M. & N. ‘NO. 1, THE ORIGINAL POLKA, AS DANCED AT THE SOIREES DU HAUT-TON IN LONDON, PARIS, VIENNA &’. The music by
Jullien. Music cover with a decorative border, showing two dancers, most probably Grisi &
Perrot, dancing the Polka. London, Jullien ca 1850 [26488] 33 x 25 cm. Original coloured lithograph. Excellent condition. £100
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POLKA:1684. Hanhart, M. & N. 'THE RHINE POLKA'. Composed on National German melodies and dedicated to Herr
Pischek. A delightfull dance scene by the banks of the Rhine, in Germany. Jullien & Co, London ca. 1850 [26759] 33 x 23 cm. Full coloured lithograph, complete with music. £125
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POLKA:1685. Beyer, F. ‘3 POLKAS {CAMELIA - ALPENHORN - UND TEUFELS - POLKA}’. Composed for the piano by Ferdinand Beyer. Fils de B.Schott, Mainz ca. 1850 [26762] 26 x 33 cm. Uncoloured lithograph, complete with music. £75
Ferdinand Beyer (1803–1863) was a classical musician. Beyer wrote the Elementary Instruction Book for the Piano Forte, a series of exercises for the right and left hand. |
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POLKA:1686. Jullien. ‘JULLIEN’S CELEBRATED POLKAS. NO. 3.- THE DRAWING ROOM POLKA, or the Nobility Balls Polka’. Composed expressly for the Grand Ball given by the Countess of Jersey and most respectfully dedicated to Lady Clementina
Villiers. Front music cover with a fine image of Grisi & Perrot dancing the Polka. Jullien, London, ca. 1860 [26763] Coloured lithograph with decorative border, 33 x 24 cm. ( left hand outside border slightly damaged, not affecting main image.) £125
Carlotta Grisi (1819-99), Italian ballet dancer. Trained at Teatro alla Scala’s ballet school in Milano and later with balletmaster and choreographer Jules Perot. Especially noted for her role as Giselle. |
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POLKA:1687. Koenig, H. ‘THE BOHEMIAN POLKA’, composed and respectfully dedicated to Viscount Bury, by Herrman Koenig. Front music cover with a fine image of a couple dancing in costume. Jullien, London ca. 1860 [26766] 33 x 24 cm. Coloured lithograph by Brandard with decorative border. Left outside border slightly damaged, but not affecting main image. £90
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QUADRILLE:1688. Bohlman, H. ‘LES FLAMBARTS’. Quadrille pour le piano by Henri
Bohlman. A delightful scene with members of High Society on the dance floor. Fils de B.Schott, Mainz ca. 1860 [26760] 26 x 33 cm. Uncoloured lithograph, complete with music. £75
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ROMANINI:1690. Schoeller. ‘MADAME ROMANINI - LA SYLPHIDE
AERIENNE’. Extremely nice image of this ballerina as tight-rope walker. Vienna, c 1800 [24370] 18 x 24 cm. Original hand coloured engraving by Andreas Geiger after
Schoeller, issued with the ‘Wiener Theaterzeitung’. £200
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ROMER:1691. Wageman/Holl. ‘MISS ROMER AS
COLOMBINE’. A role she danced at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Anonymous ca. 1830 [25751] Coloured engraving, 28 x 19 cm. Slight stain below her chin. £95
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SPANISH DANCE:1694. Anonymous. ‘DER FANDANGO’. The Fandango. Delightful scene of two spanish dancers in a garden, accompanied by a guitar player. A. H. Payne, Leipzig ca. 1850 [26755] 16 x 23 cm (oval). Original coloured steel engraving. £75
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TAGLIONI:1695. Lacauchie, A. ‘TAGLIONI’. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Full length image of the ballet dancer in costume, dancing La
Sylphide. Paris ca. 1840 [24315] Uncoloured lithograph by Alexandre
Lacauchie, 25 x 16 cm. £165
Marie Taglioni (1804-84) was a famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance. She rose to fame as a dancer when her Italian father (and teacher) Filippo Taglioni created the ballet La Sylphide (1832) for her. She was the most celebrated Ballerina of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, and at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
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TAGLIONI:1696. Heath, Ch. ‘TAGLIONI. LA
SYLPHIDE’. Full length portrait of Marie Taglioni, Italian/Swedish ballerina (1804-84). Charles Heath, London 1845 [24361] 22 x 16 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving with decorative border from the ‘Beauties of the Opera & Ballet’ edited by Charles Heath. £75
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WOLLRABE - HELMERDING:1697. Bloch, E. ‘AMALIE WOLLRABE UND CARL HELMERDING ALS NINETTE UND GIRARD IN EIN ALTER TÄNZER’, a farce by L. Günther. Berlin, Eduard Bloch ca. 1860 [26754] 20 x 15 cm. Full coloured lithograph. £90
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