Ball Collection (page 8)

Boys playing ball games (handball and football) in a park. From a print by Jean-Henri Marlet in Le Bon Genie, 1827. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill

Men playing fossette (golf) and croce (hockey)
Medieval men playing ball games in a park. In the foreground, men try to throw a ball (esteuf) into a hole in the ground in the game of fossette (ancient golf)

Medieval men playing ball games and archery in a park
Medieval men playing ball games (handball or volleyball) and archery with longbow and crossbow in a park. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

Advertisement for diablo, cup and ball, top, dice, etc
Advertisement for toys including diablo, cup and ball, spinning top, skittles, yo-yo, dice, marbles, etc. during the Empire era

Elegant people playing diabolo and cup
Elegant people playing Chinese yo-yo (diabolo) and cup and ball (bilboquet) in a garden, 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph after Langlume from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill

Bilboquet and other games - including skittles
Medieval men playing cup and ball, bilboquet, and other games including skittles, badminton and tennis. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

Funfair of cup and ball players from all walks
Funfair of cup and ball, la foire franche des bilboquets. 17th century satirical print showing people from all walks of life obsessed with the game of bilboquet

Woman playing the game of cup and ball, billeboquet or bilboquet, 17th century. Lithograph after a painting by Jacques Courtin from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill

Knights performing the Torch Dance (Fackeltanz). They wear plumed helmets, face masks and short jackets with ribbons from the shoulder. From Hans Burgkmairs Triomphe de l Empereur Maximilian I, 1526

Gentlemen and lady playing cards in a parlour, while others dance in the next room. He says, You ve hit a vein. I congratulate you Madame! He thinks, The devil take you

Two ladies talking in a garden. She says, You were the prettiest woman at the ball. She thinks, After me. Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Swiss artist Jean

Return from the masked ball
Return from the ball: a young man flirts with several women undressing after a costume ball. During carnival you must be especially vigilant, old husbands of young wives, outdated lovers

A meeting at a masquerade ball
A meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks

Preparing for a masked ball, 1800s
Preparations for a masquerade. We no longer see harlequins and pierrots at masked balls, but instead costumes of Switzerland and Normandy

Two May-September couples dancing at a ball
Two May-September couples at a ball. The old and ugly partners have arranged the company of two young, good-looking escorts, who flirt with each other

Coryphees at a ball. Incroyables in jackets with outsize buttons and collars, long cravat, huge bicorn hat, and merveilleuses with decollete dresses and large lace collars

Miss Busk and Mr Corset at a dance party. Fashionable couple in tight corsets dancing at a ball. To appear slim, there are young men today who wear corsets like the women

Masquerade party on the rollercoaster at the Salle de l Odeon, 1815. Fashionable society at a masked ball in the pleasure gardens, and women wearing the Swiss Bernese style

Man with round bowler hat and whip
Man with round bowler hat, green jacket, waistcoat, cravat, breeches, whip and pink-striped stockings. When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats

Couples dancing La Poule section of the quadrille
Two couples perform the third section La Poule in the quadrille, a popular ball and salon dance from the early 19th century

Lady in mask at a ball, reign of King Henry III of France, 1573-1575. She wears a hat decorated with pearls, a full-face black mask

Pacu or pacupeba, Myleus pacu (Pacu of Guiana, Myletes pacu). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Deaths head hawkmoth, digger wasps, ball lichen
Ball lichen, Sphaerophorus globulus 1, Dynamene crustacean 2, digger wasps, Sphex species 3, 4, and African deaths head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, and caterplillar 5

Mlle. Judith as Isabelle in La Grisette de Qualite, 1844
Mlle. Judith or Judith Julie Bernat as Isabelle in La Grisette de Qualite, Theatre des Folies Dramatiques, 1844. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Louis Lasalle from Victor Dollets

The Countess of Salisbury losing her garter dancing at a court ball, for King Edward II to pick up. The origin of the Order of the Garter, founded in 1348

Indigenous Mapuche of Chile playing ciueca or palin
Indigenous Mapuche of Chile playing the game of ciueca or palin, a hockey-like game with sticks and large ball. Copied from G. Bramati

Orange-ball-tree or orange ball buddleja, Buddleja globosa (Buddlea globiflora). Handcoloured stipple engraving by Mlle. Brenet after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel

18th century surgeon Jean Louis Petits screw-type
18th century surgeon Jean Louis Petits screw tourniquet for compressing blood vessels: tourniquet device 1, double band to adjust the tourniquet 2, compress in chamois leather 3 and ball bearing 4

Evening ball gown, Napoleonic era, 1808
French womens fashions, evening ball gown, Napoleonic era, 1808. Illustration by Forester, lithograph by Madame Goclon from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France

Young lady of quality at a masked ball, demoiselle de qualite, France, 1586. She holds a mask in her right hand and a cantenance (muff) in her left. A mirror and fan hang from her belt

Annie Raven-Hill as Cleopatra at Artists Ball, 1910
Annie Raven Hill, wife of Leonard Raven Hill, the well-known Punch artist, dressed up as Cleopatra for the Artists Ball held at the Grafton Galleries in 1910. 1910

Boys playing American football. Date: circa 1970s

Music cover, Auf Wiedersehen, by Caroline Lowthian
Music cover, Auf Wiedersehen (Until We Meet Again), waltz played at all the nobilitys balls, by Caroline Lowthian. circa 1860

Group photo, Queensland, Australia, rugby team. 1892

Fancy Dress Ball at Princes Skating Club, London
Fancy Dress Ball at Princes Skating Club, Knightsbridge, London. Present, from left to right, are: Violet Cuninghame (Folly), Myra Hamilton (Pierrette, 3rd prize), May Lyle (Geisha)

Victorian silk birthday card, Woman playing Croquet. 19th century

Poster, military officer and woman dancing
Theatre poster, military officer and woman in a ball gown dancing

Illustration, Bowled out. first published 1838

Lady with Chinese lantern
Lady at a masked ball holding a Chinese lantern. 1920s

The Marchioness of Salisburys juvenile fancy dress ball
Childrens fancy dress ball, given by the Marchioness of Salisbury at Hatfield House in 1875. 1875

The Winding of the Skein. 1870

Manchester United FC team, FA Cup Winners 1909
Group photo, Manchester United FC team, FA Cup Winners in 1909. 1909

Grant of Glenmoriston tartan. circa 1846

Billiards, Une Partie de Blanchisseux (A Party of Launderers). 1860

Almacks Petite Ball-Room Manual and Polka Guide
Book cover, Almacks Petite Ball-Room Manual and Polka Guide. circa 1850

Cricket match. 18th century

Costume for the Eclipse Ball, Begum Aga Khan
A costume for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

Four costumes for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

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