Elegant Historical Balls

A collection of grand ballroom scenes from the 19th century, showcasing lavish dresses and opulent decorations at various prestigious events across Europe.

18th century masked ball at a theatre in Madrid in Spain

Grand ball given at the academy of music; New York in honour of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Ballroom in the Hotel de Brienne during the ball held by the Ministry of War, February 11, 1852, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 469, Volume XIX, February 19-26, 1852.

DR. MARK'S JUVENILE BALL IN THE FREE-TRADE HALL, MANCHESTER

National Concert at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1850. 'It is highly creditable to the direction of the above entertainments at Her Majesty's Theatre, that so much alacrity has been displayed in amending the errors of inexperienced management. It is an excellent sign when such promptitude is manifested to consult the wants and wishes of the really musical public. Many causes of complaint as to convenience and comfort have been removed, and the schemes are gradually developing the vast resources at the command of the executive committee in the most advantageous light. The alteration in the

Charity ball at Pera (Beyoglu), Istanbul, Turkey, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 736, Volume XXIX, April 4, 1857.

España. Madrid. Concierto en el Teatro del Liceo en 1849. Grabado de época.

Banquet given by the Suez Canal Company at the Palais de l'Industrie, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1095, Volume XLIII, February 20, 1864.

Old Covent Garden Theatre - during a performance of the opera 'Semiramide' by Rossini Date: 1847

Entertainment for the patients at the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch Date: 1853

18th century masked ball at a theatre in Madrid in Spain

Barcelona. Salón de baile de gala. Año 1860.

. Stadholder Willem V and Princess Wilhelmina van Pruisen live in the regal Loge in the new Amsterdam Schouwburg on the Keizersgracht a theater performance, 1 June 1768. Part of a print series with title print and 14 plates of the prince and princess in Amsterdam, 30 May - June 4, 1768.

The opera schottisch (the Italian opera at Castle Garden), 1853, published by Firth, Pond & Co. in New York. The print features a lithograph on a tinted ground, displayed in black and white. The dimensions of the print are 33 x 25 cm. Accompanying the image is a music score consisting of three pages. The content relates to 19th-century opera in the United States

Show and concert hall in the Bonne-Nouvelle Bazar, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 202, Volume VIII, January 9, 1847.

State ball at Stockholm, Sweden 1860

France, Paris, Scene from the opera Angelica e Medoro, ossia l'Orlando, by Giuseppe Nicolini (1762-1842) at the Opera Comique in Paris

The French orpheonist festival at the Crystal Palace, London, England.

Choreography for a ballet (coreografia per un ballo) by Ferdinando Galli Bibbiena (1657-1743), engraving

Ball at the British Embassy, Constantinople, in honour of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1869. 'In the evening the grand ball took place at the British Embassy, which was attended by the Sultan and the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. It was certainly the most brilliant ball ever witnessed in Pera. Upwards of 600 invitations were issued to the diplomatic body and the elite of the Turkish and Frank ie western European community. The Sultan arrived at half-past ten, when the Prince, Mr. Elliot, and their suites went down stairs to receive his Majesty. His Royal Highness led the

Minuet danced at the State Ball given by the French King, February 24th 1745, in the covered Riding School of the Grand Stables, Versailles. Lithograph after Charles Nicolas Cochin from Paul Lacroix' The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, London, 1876.

. Theater performance in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on the Keizersgracht with the coulisecor hell with scene from: the age tidal from the Amsteldamschen Schouwburg. The decor printed from a separate plate within a passe-partout with the hall, side logs, orchestra and the facade of the stage with columns, garlands and chandeliers. The title and a four-line verse also printed from a separate plate. Part of a series of 12 stage decorations.

Interior of the Schouwburg in Amsterdam, Nicolaas van Frankendaal, After Willem Writs, 1774 print View of the scene of the Amsterdam Schouwburg in Amsterdam. The room is filled with spectators, a theater piece is being performed on stage. In the margin there is a rule of text in Dutch, translated into French in the second line. paper etching theatre, theatrical performance

'ANTIGONE' performed at Covent Garden Theatre, 1845

Great charity ball at the new Opera house in Paris, France, illustration by Smeeton Tilly from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1668, Volume LXV, February 13, 1875.

The new Castelli Theatre opened on October 24 with Ruy Blas by Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), illustration from Nuova illustrazione Universale, Year 1, Volume II, No 52, October 25, 1874.

Audience of the Management Board in Costume The 30 Brumaire An 4th of the Republic Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, Jean Duplessis-Bertaux. "Hearing of the Management Board in Costume The 30 Brumaire year 4th of the Republic".

MADRID. CIRCO DE RIVAS. CONCIERTO CLASICO POR LA SOCIEDAD DE PROFESORES , AÑO 1875. GRABADO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA. MADRID PINTADO.

Ball at the Grand Hotel, for the benefit of unemployed workers, Paris, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century origi...

An evening session of 4 August 1789 at the start of the French Revolution, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unkn...

La salle du bal donné dans le petit parc de Versailles. Prints. 1678. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Pageants , France, Ballet , France , 17th century

BALL IN HONOUR OF THE SULTAN, AT THE NEW INDIA OFFICE, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, UK, 1867

Interior of the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

Grand Fete and Theatrical Representation at the Hotel de Ville, Paris, in honour of the Peace Plenipotentiaries, 1856. '...a brilliant spectacle, from 1500 to 2000 persons being present.... In the Salle du Spectacle the central seats were assigned exclusively to ladies...The orchestra was hidden by a mass of camellias. The play...was the "Concert a la Cour," as it admitted the introduction of singers, musical performers, and ballet-dancers...Alboni sang enchantirgly, Rosati danced exquisitely, and M. Alard fascinated the audience with that king of instruments - the violin. M. Botte

The Burning of Covent-Garden Theatre - Flight of the Masqueraders, 1856. Illustration to a poem suggested by a theatre fire. 'Ho! ho! Tramp, tramp go the hurrying feet - Hark, hark to the rush in the crowded street! But wilder, and fiercer, and madder the rout; Shall resound through these walls ere my flames be crushed out; Hurrah! hurrah! for the Carnival, The rushing and crushing - the masque and the ball; Storm-loving rioters, merry men all, Hurrah! hurrah! for your Carnival! Fled - fled are the harpers, and hushed is their tuning, And trampled the women, all shrieking and swooning; Amid cr

Interior view of the theatre built by Barthelemy in Rue Neuve-Saint-Nicolas, Paris, France, illustration by Valentin from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 431, Volume XVII, May 29th-June 5th, 1851.

Franz Liszt's fundraising concert for the flood victims of Pest in 1839, where he was the conductor of the orchestra. Vigadó Concert Hall, Pest.

The shah at the royal Italian Opera, Naser ad-din, Shah of Persia, in the Royal Italian Opera in London from Supplement to the Illustrated London News , Unknown

. Stadholder Willem V and Princess Wilhelmina van Pruisen live in the regal Loge in the new Amsterdam Schouwburg on the Keizersgracht a theater performance, 1 June 1768. Part of a print series with title print and 14 plates of the prince and princess in Amsterdam, 30 May - June 4, 1768.

At the theatre.. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. New York (State) , History, Interiors, Theaters , New YorkNew York

The grand saloon of the palace steamer Drew

Courtiers and aristocrats playing the game of roulette, or the Jeu du Roi. Chromolithograph from Paul Lacroix' The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, London, 1876.

Representation du théatre ou l'on joue les comédies pour le divertissement du Roy de Tunquin et de son cour Representation du théatre ou l'on joue les comédies. Prints. 1700 - 1799. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Dance , Indochina, 18th century

Interior of the Grand theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 234, August 21, 1847.

King Louis XIV and his company in a theater in Versailles, Jean Lepautre, Israel Silvestre, 1664 print The royal company is in a theater in Versailles and looks at a theater and/or ballet version on stage. An orchestra in the orchestra. The space is illuminated by chandeliers with candles. paper etching / engraving French or architectonic garden; formal garden. festivities. king. the arts of the stage: ballet, theatre, musical drama, motion picture Versailles

Illustration depicting a Café singer performing by the Champs-Elysees, Paris, France. Dated 1870

Baal of de Waereld in Maskerade The world in masquerade. 1720. Prints, Caricatures. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Political satire

Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Alceste being performed in the marble courtyard at the Palace of Versailles, 1674 by Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682) / Bibliotheque Nationale de France / 1676 / France / Copper engraving / Opera, Ballet, Theatre /Baroque

The Prince opening the Industrial Exhibition in the Crystal Palace

Paris. - Transformation of the Grand Opera Theater into the ballroom after the representation of the Mardi-Gras.

Coffee concert hall in France, by Paul Gustave Dore' (1832-1883), ca 1865, engraving.

A STATE BALL AT THE TUILERIES, PARIS, FRANCE, 1869

United States of America, 19th century. New York, interior of Park Theatre during a performance, 1822. Painting by John Searle.

The Royal Family at Covent Garden Theatre, London, 1804.Artist: James Fittler

Theatrical performance.. 1880. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

. Theater performance in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg on the Keizersgracht with the Coulis Decoration The communal neighborhood with scene: the loving brechje. The decor printed from a separate plate within a passe-partout with the hall, side logs, orchestra and the facade of the stage with columns, garlands and chandeliers. The title and a four-line verse also printed from a separate plate. Part of a series of 12 stage decorations.

Parisians enjoy the customary imperial fetes. : a theatre at Les Invalides presents a stirring spectacle depicting France's military glory. Date: 1861

Thereza at the Alcazar Cafe-Concert, 1866, Paris, France 19th century.

Draw of the lottery of gold lingot in the circus room of the Champs-Elysées ...

Theatrical Divertissement Offered at a Gala Evening Party 18th century Attributed to Gabriel de Saint-Aubin French. Theatrical Divertissement Offered at a Gala Evening Party 339744

06/04/1908. "Zaragoza" Opera Fair by Benito Perez Galdós and maestro Lapuerta.

Last scene. (title registered) | Small comedians. (IFF 1771-1772) (Title of the whole)

Masked ball with music in the Riding School in Vienna, Austria, early 19th century engraving

Representing Shakespeares Plays in the Hall of the Middle Temple, Illustration from the Book, "John Cassels Illustrated History of England, Volume II", text by William Howitt, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1858

Circus performers riding horses in the ring at Franconi's Circus, Paris, in front of a huge audience. Date: circa 1840

Savoy Theatre, London. House, not stage, lit by Swan incandescent electric lamps. Built by Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1881, it was the home of the Gilbert and Sullivan operattas. Wood engraving, 1881

Costumed ball at the Tuileries, February 9, 1863. - The quadrille of bees

Interior of Covent Garden Theater, London ca. 1808 Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827 British) Colored engraving

Lithograph of a bal masque from 1800 - 1899, published by Lith. de Jobard Freres in Paris. The image depicts a masquerade and ballroom dancing. It is a color lithograph measuring 12.6 x 22.2 cm

FAREWELL BANQUET OF THE DEPUTIES OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY, IN THE CASINO PAGANINI AT PARIS, 1852

The Royal Banquet, at Rosenau, 1845. Dinner at the birthplace and boyhood home of Prince Albert in Germany. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.

MARRIAGE OF H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT

Scene from the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Paris, Thétre de l'Opéra-Le Peletier, 11.03.1867, Anonymous

The Social Science Congress at New York: conversazione in the Assembly Rooms, Blake-street, 1864. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

View of the Regency gents betting on the St. Leger horse race at Doncaster race track, 1825. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.

CafZ concert, boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, c. 1840 engraving

Combat à la barrière. Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635. Prints. 1627. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Festivals , France , 17th century, Pageants , France , 17th century, tournaments , France , 17th century

Grand concert given for the benefit of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the negro vocalist known as "the black swan". The Duchess of Sutherland hosted the concert at 3pm in the principal drawing room at Stafford House. Date: 1853

FIESTAS ESCOLARES EN EL TROCADERO. EXPOSICION UNIVERSAL PARIS 1878. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

A scene at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1927 showing couples on the dancefloor. Date: 1927

Spain, 18th century. Minorca: the audience in a theatre during a performance of The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere.

'Reception and Ball at Dover House, the official residence of Lord Dalhousie; The Ball Room', 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886".

Charity event and sale at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the construction of a German hospital in Paris, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century master, exact original date not known, Europe

PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT TO R.N. PHILIPS, ESQ., M.P. FOR BURY

Engraving from newspaper - The Birmingham Grand Musical Festival, Town Hall, 19th Century. View of concert in Birmingham Town Hall. Wilkinson Collection Vol ii

English theatricals at Paris - the Salle Ventador, 1844. A production of Shakespeare's 'Othello' on the French stage. 'The Salle itself is perhaps the most beautiful in the world. The rich gilding upon a white ground, relieved by the deep crimson velvet, which gives the only colour used in the theatre, places the splendid audience in the richest possible framework, and the boxes receding as they grow higher, and free from all division, so as to show every person as in the section of an amphitheatre...A foreign audience in the mass are only judges of the right and wrong, the interest for the go

Interior view of the Bowery Theatre, New York (as rebuilt in 1845 by John M. Trimble), published in the 1856

Theatre scene from La Czarine, Mazurka Russe by Louis Ganne, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known, Europe

GRAND ENTERTAINMENT ON BOABD H.M.S. 'PRINCE REGENT,' AT CORK, 1852

Handel festival in the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London: a large audience attending a concert. Wood engraving by J. Mahoney, 1865.

Festivities in Turin, popular performance of the Theatre of Gianduja in the garden of the Royal Palace, 1869, Gianduja is part of numerous folkloric e...

An engraving depicting Pepper's ghost, an illusion technique used to produce a ghostly image, named after John Henry Pepper. The "Ghost" under the stage is lit and reflected by a mirror on to sheet glass in front of the stage. To the audience, the ghost appears to be on the stage. John Henry Pepper (1821-1900) a British scientist and inventor. Dated 19th century

Ball, or the world in Masquerade, 1720; Baal. or the waiter in Masquerade / The World in Masquerade; The great scene of foolishness. Ball, or the world in Masquerade. Theater with a dance hall in which a masked ball is celebrated. On the sides and above stage, eleven masks, including those of the devil, are a jester etc. with caption in four columns in English and Dutch. Print in the bound first edition (304 B 11) from the great scene of foolishness with cartriders on the wind trade or action trade of 1720.

The Sunshine of Spain at the Earl's Court Exhibition, London, showing the interior of the Empress Hall. Including photos of itinerant musicians and Toledo peasants, and a procession of Spanish dancers (below). Date: 1914

Theatrical Successes in the year 19227. The Scarlet Pimpernel. At the Infanta Isabel theater -.

'PIT, BOXES AND GALLERY' in a London theatre (Cruikshank has drawn himself second from left in the centre box) Date: 1836

Regency dandies in the stalls watching a tragedy in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. A full house to watch Lord Byrons banned play The Doge of Venice. Designed by architect Benjamin Wyatt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Heath from Real Life in London, or, the Further Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis, Jones, London 1821. Anonymous imitation of Pierce Egans Life in London.

Theatre scene from La Czarine, Mazurka Russe by Louis Ganne, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact...

Tightrope walker in Vauxhall Gardens, London.

Concert in the party building during the Muziekfeest, 1854, 1855 print View in the interior of the new party building where a concert is given in the context of the music party, evening of July 13, 1854. Part of a series of twelve portraits to Daguerrotypias and twelve cityscapes. On the occasion of the music party to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Society for the Promotion of Toonkunst in Rotterdam, 12-15 July 1854. print maker: Netherlandsafter drawing by: Rotterdamprinter: The Haguepublisher: The Hague paper large group of musicians, orchestra. concert hall Rotterdam

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