Performance Collection (page 6)

Eden Concert (El Cabaret), Barcelona, Spain Date: early 20th century

May Success Be Thine Date: early 20th century

Theatre show, promotional postcard

A scene from Adam Bede: as played at an Indian Hill Station. Date: 1898

The Laughing Cavalier at The Adelphi Theatre, London: Arthur Margetson in the role of the Cavalier about to surprise the wife of Frans Hals the painter (played by Irene Eisinger)

A scene from Diaghileffs Petroushka from a performance in London, 1926 with choreography by Fokine, decor by Benois and music by Stravinsky Date: 1926

Diaghilevs scene Les Matelots from a performance in London, 1926. Scenery and costumes by Pruna Date: 1926

Tony Sarg in his workshop and a group of his favourite marionettes, 1928 Date: 1928

Theatre performance, Japan, late 19th century

Crowd watching a theatrical performance, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

A young girl ballerina. Date: 1930s

A little girl does the splits in a jolly stage costume of striped trousers and top hat. Date: 1930s

A Conversazione at the London Sketch Club, John Hassall
Scenes from a smoking conversazione at the London Sketch Club in which members would do a turn. Pictured by John Hassall is Cecil Aldin, Phil May

Queen Mary on a visit to Bethnal Green in the east end of London, accompanied by the Mayor after enjoying a performance of I Pagliacci by the Oxford House Choral Society at the Excelsior Cinema in

The Ju Jitsu Waltz comes to the Gaiety. Date: 1907

Scenes in Egypt, 1820
The great ruins of the Colossi of Memnon in Luxor in south Egypt 73, raft of earthenware pitchers on the Nile 74, and women carrying water pitchers on their heads 74

Interior of the Odeon of Pericles in Athens
Interior of the Odeon of Athens or Odeon of Pericles in Athens, Greece. Interna costruzione dell Odeo di Pericle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Alessandro Sanquirico

Choragic Monument and the Tower of the Winds, Athens, Greece
Plans and elevations of the Lysicrates Choragic Monument 2 and the Tower of the Winds or the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes 1, Athens, Greece. Monumento di Lisicrate e Torre de Venti

Mr Thomas Sheridan in the character of Oedipus in John Drydens Oedipus, Covent Garden Theatre, 1755. Irish actor, educator, and proponent of the elocution movement 1719-1788

French actor Bertin as Zug in the historical melodrama Pauvre Berger by Daubigny, Carmouche and Hyacinthe at the Theatre du Panorama Dramatique, 1823

French actress Mlle Mante as Laure in the play L Education
French actress Louise-Charlotte-Theophile-Delphine Escoffie or Mlle Mante as Laure in the play L Education ou les Deux Cousines by Casimir Bonjour at the Theatre Francais

Mlle Fanny Chalboz as La Bourguignonne in Cuisinieres
Mlle Fanny Chalboz as La Bourguignonne in the play Cuisinieres by Nicholas Brazier at the Theatre des Varietes, 1822. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malos Almanach des Spectacles par

Jean-Baptiste Firmin as Andre in the melodrama Pauvre Famille by Benjamin and Melchior at the Theatre de l Ambigu Comique, 1822

Perrier as Dupont in Le Celibataire et l Homme marie
Perrier as Dupont, l Homme marie, in Le Celibataire et l Homme marie by Alexis-Jacques-Marie Wafflard at the Odeon, 1822. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malos Almanach des Spectacles

Mlle. Venzel or Elisa Wenzel as David in Saul at
Mlle. Venzel or Elisa Wenzel as David in Vittorio Alfieris historical tragedy Saul at the Theatre Royal de l Odeon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malos Almanach des Spectacles par

Albrecht Durer, German Renaissance painter, 1471-1528. From a self portrait woodcut. Lithograph after a drawing by HVH from Portraits of the most celebrated painters of all the schools, Ackermann

Mounted Display of the Army School of Equitation
Mounted Display at the Royal Tournament by The Army School of Equitation (based at Weedon Bec, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England). Date: circa 1910s

Noel Coward in cabaret at the Cafe de Paris
Noel Coward seen during final rehearsals for his performance in cabaret at the Cafe de Paris, London, in 1951. 28th October 1951

Music cover, A-Tisket A-Tasket, Ella Fitzgerald
Music cover, A-Tisket A-Tasket, words and music by Ella Fitzgerald and Al Feldman. 1938

Mr Maskelynes New Magical Sketch, Egyptian Hall Mr Maskelynes New Magical Sketch
Mr Maskelynes New Magical Sketch, Arcana, Egyptian Hall, London. 1888

The Hoffman Girls performing webbing act, London Hippodrome
The eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls performing their extraordinary acrobatic webbing act at the London Hippodrome, Leap Year, in 1924. Date: 1924

Swan Lake at the London Hippodrome, 1910
Dancers of the Imperial Opera House of St. Petersburg and Moscow, appearing at the London Hippodrome in May 1910 where they performed Le Lac des Cygnes or Swan Lake for the first time in the UK

Sahary Djeli, dancer
Sahary Djeli, oriental dancer who was performing at the London Hippodrome in 1911. Her act was notable for the sinuous, serpentine movement of her arms. Date: 1911

Performing polar bears 1903
Herr Litz with his performing polar bears. Date: 1903

Performing cats 1903
Herr Litz with his performing cats. Date: 1903

Miracle Play taking place in the street in York
Miracle Play (or Mystery Play) taking place in the street in York. 1884

General Tom Thumb as Napoleon
General Tom Thumb (Charless Stratton) as Napoleon. 19th century

Music cover, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, song waltz, words by George Leybourne, music by Alfred Lee, performed by Shaw and Weston. 1934

Charless Stratton, General Tom Thumb as Napoleon. 19th century

Performing bear at the London Hippodrome
A Bright Little Bruin at the Hippodrome. A bear cub performing at the London Hippodrome in 1905. His act consisted of him riding on the back of a pony

Flying the Flume at Crystal Palace 1904
French Mademoiselle Dutrien (le fleche humaine), the human arrow, performing at Crystal Palace, London. After riding down a curving track on her bicycle which falls some seventy feet

Herr Sawade, with two tigers, part of his troupe of performing lions, tigers and bears, appearing at the London Hippodrome in 1901. 1901

Siberia at the London Hippodrome
Siberia, the water spectacle at the London Hippodrome showing the final scene in the last act with Mr Henglers wonderful plunging horses. Date: 1900

An extraordinary motoring turn at the London Hippodrome
Strongman Herr George Lettl between two 8 1/2 h.p. cars at the London Hippodrome. The cars both started off at top speed in opposite directions and by sheer strength

Zutka of the Hippodrome in Fleet Street
Zutka, the famous man/doll appearing at the London Hippodrome in 1904 flies by accident out of his box opposite Andertons Hotel in Fleet Street on his way to a photographers studio

Phroso, the puzzle man at the London Hippodrome
Phroso, a performer who pretended to be a mechanical man by making his limbs go rigid. To be seen at the London Hippodrome in October 1902. Date: 1902

Mdlle. Milly Capell, famous equestrienne at the Hippodrome
Milly Capell, famous German equestrienne and specialist in haute ecole (dressage) who was performing at the London Hippodrome in March 1900 with her thoroughbred Arabian horse and her dogs. Date: 1900

Russian ballet, Stravinsky Apollo Musagetes, Felix de Gray
Illustration by Felix de Gray depicting the new Russian Ballet at the Royal Opera House in 1929. Scenes shows the Diaghileff production of Apollo Musagetes by Stravinsky. Date: 1929

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