Historical Theater Illustrations

Vintage caricatures and illustrations depicting scenes from classic theater performances and operettas in Europe.

Recenent phrases, Figure transmission of reviewer phrases for Viennese theater performances, with Marie Geistinger, Charlotte Wolter, Josefine Gallmayer, Wilhelm Knaack, Josef Matras, Bertha EHN N cartoon sequence from Der Floh , Karl Klic -, caricaturist

Recenent phrases, Figure transmission of reviewer phrases for Viennese theater performances, with Marie Geistinger, Charlotte Wolter, Josefine Gallmayer, Wilhelm Knaack, Josef Matras, Bertha EHN N cartoon sequence from Der Floh , Karl Klic -, caricaturist

Donna Juanita in the Carltheater, Scenes from Franz von Suppés operetta Donna Juanita in the Carltheater, and a, With Blasel, Schäfer, Groß, Streimermann, Klein, Bisca, Eppich, as well as director Tewel, Suppé, and the librettist Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée from Der Floh, László frecskay -, caricaturist

Theater of Vaudeville (gallee sheep toilets).

Harlekijn announces puppeteer on stage, François Grenier, c. 1820 print Paris paper puppet and marionette show. types in 'commedia dell'arte': Harlequin. the show; fair and circus performers

The encounter. (Title) | Gentlemen of Polka (IFF 5) (title of all)

Different representations. Leaf with 9 performances of different nature, including puppets, a singing lesson and a decent gentleman. Under every image a caption. Under the first image the caption: Search never in the drink. / Whoever sees to be mocked. Numbered at the top right: No. 26.

The public at the theater

Different representations. Leaf with 9 performances of different nature, including puppets, a singing lesson and a decent gentleman. Under every image a caption. Under the first image the caption: Search never in the drink. / Whoever sees to be mocked. Numbered at the top right: No. 26.

The opener. - Monsieur! ... / - My dear, it's a car .... / - Do you want to leave your arm ... / - Excuse me ma'am ! .... (title registered) | Fat days (title of all)

Review of theaters, by Robida.

Theater success , Theater success, Katharina Frank, director Bukovics, Gallmeyer, Tewele, Jauner, Mitterwurzer from humorous leaves , Unknown

Man and masked woman at a dance hall, Corneille Seghers, 1844 print paper etching / drypoint masquerade, masked ball. group dancing

Etching and copper engraving by Jean Leclerc from 1640-1660 depicting a nocturnal concert, showing musicians, instruments, and evening interior settings.

Photo production of a drawing, representative Ludwig Chronegk leads the general rehearsal of the play Julius Caesar; That MEININGER VON C. W. Allers. .

Caricature to the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Paris, Thétre de l'Opéra-Le Peletier, 11.03.1867, Gillot, Firmin (1820-1872)

Scenes from the Amsterdamsche Kermis, 1850 - 1881 print Leaf with 4 circus scenes, such as a magician and acrobats on horseback. A title above each performance and an eight -line verse below. Numbered at the top right: No. 88. publisher: Leidenprint maker: Netherlands paper letterpress printing circus. horses (circus performance). sorcerer, magician, wizard, warlock. circus animals

Photo production of a drawing, representing Ludwig Chonegk leads the general rehearsal of the play Julius Caesar, F.A. Dahlström, after Christian Wilhelm Allers, 1890 photomechanical print paper collotype rehearsal, studying the role ~ theatre. director, producer ~ the stage

Ernestine and Annie Henrarde: at Brougham's Bowery Theatre Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. Prints, Illustrations. 1856-09-27. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Henrarde, Annie, Henrarde, Ernestine, Dancers , United States , 19th century

New Zealand and New Zealanders; Salmans prints. Leaf with 4 performances of New Zealand and New Zealanders. Under every image a caption. Numbered in the middle: No. 49.

La filleule des fées: ballet toujours pantomime, en trois actes et ses tableaux; à la queue d'un prologue, par MM. Singe-Orge et Pierrot Journal pour rire. Prints. 1849-10-20. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Perrot, Jules, 1810-1892 , Caricatures and cartoons, Petipa, Lucien, 1815-1898 , Caricatures and cartoons, Filleule des fées (Choreographic work : Perrot), Ballet , France , 19th century

Le spectacle, était-ce bien et a-t-il été raisonnable Lolo - Lolo! ne m'en parle pas...je - dis en entrant, 'C'est un enfant de six ans et demi.' Voilà-t-il pas que monsieur s'en va, 'Non - papa, j'ai sept ans passés, je ne suis plus un enfant'...Désagréable moutard! Il m'a - fallu payer place entière ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

The Black Corsar, Scenes from the play The Black Corsar by Jacques Offenbach, Marie Geistinger, Swoboda, Carl Adolf Friese caricature from Die Bomb, László frecskay -, Caricaturist, Carl Angerer -, realization

BACHIC SCALES./N°11./BON! Two municipians who come to stop! ... In v'là muffes! (Registered title (letter)) | Banic scenes. (Title of all)

Etching by Jean Heudelot depicting a rustic concert. Created around 1760, illustrating rural musical activity and social gathering in the 18th century.

"Result of the Fire - The Poor Curiosities Out of Employment.": Barnum's Museum.. 1865. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

9 / Toby following his mistress The baroness of the core at the ... promenade (registered title) | To the devil The servants! (Title of the whole)

The women like they shouldnt be, Posse with vocals in four pictures by O, Berg, Music by Kapellmeister I, Brandl , Josefine Gallmeyer, The women as they shouldnt be, Posse with singing in four pictures by O, Berg, Music by Kapellmeister I, Brandl carricature from The Flea , Theodor Zasche , Caricaturist

At the cafe-concert. The beauty of his voice ... / 48 (title registered (letter)) | At the Latin Quarter. (Title of all)

All kinds of. Leaf with 4 performances of different nature: a broken monkey, men on falconry hunt, children sleeping on street in London and musicians playing by candlelight. Under every show a two-legged fresh. Numbered at the top right: No. 10.

FLYING SKETCHES AT THE THEATRES; THE STRAND; THE ADELPHI; THE PRINCE OF WALES; LONDON, 1877 engraving

Two men with a letter. Two men are standing on the street. One of them reads a letter. Around the show a frame with rollerwork.

Masked woman tries to seduce married man on the ball, Paul Gavarni, 1843 print Paris paper Carnival, Shrovetide (non-liturgical celebration). woman dressed as man, travesty. masquerade, masked ball. unsuccessful love affair; seduction Paris

Circus Austria, Today and all party conferences big strength samples, Proposal, Circus Austria , proposal for the agreement of the constitutional party, including Eduard Taaffe, autumn, Giskra etc, two caricatures with text from Der Floh , Theodor Zasche -, caricaturist

Different representations. Sheet with 8 performances of various kinds, including a giant image filled with human sacrifices, a cooper to work and an English Lord traveling. Under every image a caption. Under the first image the caption: it makes it easy. Numbered at the top right: No. 18 (crossed out and improved in 23, in pencil).

Two actors talk to each other in the wings, Paul Gavarni, 1838 print The actors discuss the legs of their female colleagues. Paris paper behind the stage. actor, actress (non-work situations). stage costume

The daughter of the godless in the theater on the Josefstadt, Hugo Gerard Ströhl -, artist

Presentation of a story from the Aesopus fables. Two men in a large kitchen pointing to hooks with meat hanging on a bar.

Theater of Le Mans. (Title Title) | Caricature Album of the Regional Competition of Le Mans. (Title of all)

Man talks to dancer behind the decor, Paul Gavarni, 1847 print Paris paper. female dancer. behind the stage. courting

Spanish dancers, J.B. Clermans, 1836 print In a landscape, two men and women dance in Spanish costumes. On the right a man plays on a guitar. There are three more figures next to him. Amsterdam paper more than one couple dancing. one person playing string instrument (plucked) - CC - out of doors

French society in the Carltheater, La Princesse de Trébi , Scenes from the performance of the play La Princesse de Trébizonde by Jacques Offenbach in the Carltheater caricature from Die Bomb , Corggio, Caricaturist

Historical postcard around 1876, Bayreuth, performance of the Nibelungen, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, digital reproduction of a historical postcard, public domain, from that time, exact date unknown

Different performances; Bredée's childprints. Leaf with 9 performances of different nature, including two children who build a snowman and a toddler who smokes. Four to eight rules under each image. Numbered upper left: No. 3.

Pygmalion; of Het beeld bezield door de liefde: zo als hetzelve door Carolina en Charlotta Frederic, oud 9 en 7 Jaaren, op den Amsteldamschen Schouwburg, in het laatste des Jaars 1758, gedanst is. Myn, G. van der. Basan, François, 1723-1797. Prints. 1759. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Frederic Sisters, (fl. 1758), Ballet , Netherlands

Twee dansende jongens in een interieur.Two dancing boys in an interior. In the background a man plays a man with a top hat for conductor. Bottom right: bl. 144.

David Copperfield, -The friendly waiter and I

Scene images from Der Schützling by Johann Nestroy costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver

Two actors talk to each other in the wings, Paul Gavarni, 1838 print Paris paper behind the stage. actor, actress (non-work situations). stage costume

The toll of turn-piko. ... / No. 13. (Registered Title) | British Moors (IFF 37) (Title of all)

See / Youth! Until your entertainment / kids-cart and carriage / blyph grateful to worry more to you. Leaf with 2 performances. Upstairs: A tractic coat is causing the children who were sitting on the ground. Below: a porter throws a wheelbarrow through which the children were sitting on the floor. Under every image a four-line verse. Numbered at the top right: No. 41.

Concert of Gaité / Mandarine / M.Craseelle / Ms. Petit.

The monkeys; Print warehouse for the youth; Natural history. Sheet with 6 performances from different monkeys, such as a chimpanzee, a baboon and a swing monkey. Above every performance a title and under every performance a four-line verse. Numbered at the top right: No. 70, numbered at the top right: (3.).

Partitura musical de la balada "La folle de Sante Elene", de Gaetano Donizetti. Editado en París, 1838.

At murder! At murder! Cried the unfortunate Bohemian (IFF 164) (dummy title)

Antonie Link, Antonie Link leaves Jauners Carl Theater title page of Die Bomb , László frecskay -, Caricaturist

The musical world. (Title registered (letter))

Ah! Well, you are good, you bring your refreshments! , litografia z serii at the masked ball W: the charivari Beaumont, Charles E Douard of (1821 1888), lith. Destouches (Fl. 1853 1869), Maison Martinet

Franz von Dingelstedt, actor, For the Burgtheater anniversary title page of Der Floh, Friedrich Graetz Grätz -, Caricaturist, Angerer , Göschl, Printing Press

Cartoon with Thorbecke as leader of the orchestra of the opposition, 1867, 1867 print Cartoon with Thorbecke who is the first violinist to lead the orchestra of the opposition. With other ministers on other instruments. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 15, 13 April 1867. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper small group of musicians, chamber orchestra, jazz band

Sketch of Carnival 2 / At the Opera Ball / That's your Princess [...

The concert season, by O.boissin.

Wawerley and Miss Flora. (IFF 46) (registered title)

Ball scene

Scene from the Opera Gioacchin Rossini Seville Cyrulik according to Hermann Kaulbach. A clip from a German magazine. Schulze, C.H. (N.N.), Kaulbach, Hermann von (1846 1909)

Napoli Tarantella ca. 1870 Giorgio Sommer Italian, born Germany. Napoli Tarantella 305832

Kinderschouwburg / De Page. Play play in 2 companies, 1850 - 1881 print Leaf with 4 performances of actors on the stage of a theater. In the foreground public. Above each performance a title and under every performance Versrules. Numbered at the top right: No. 87. publisher: Leidenprint maker: Netherlands paper letterpress printing actor (on the stage). the audience ~ art performance

Various dances - satirical drawing (from the Zanoza" journal). unknown, draughtsman, cartoonist

THE COSTUME BALL GIVEN BY THE ART CLUB AT GLASGOW IN AID OF THE SCOTTISH ARTISTS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, Scotland UK 1889.

Le spectacle, était-ce bien et a-t-il été raisonnable Lolo - Lolo! ne m'en parle pas...je - dis en entrant, 'C'est un enfant de six ans et demi.' Voilà-t-il pas que monsieur s'en va, 'Non - papa, j'ai sept ans passés, je ne suis plus un enfant'...Désagréable moutard! Il m'a - fallu payer place entière ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other Works

Clown on stage draws attention to popular newspapers, Bernard Édouard Swebach, 1822 print Paris paper performance in the open air (pleasure fair)

Advertisement for publisher Gihaut in Paris. A violinist and a clown stand for the entrance of a circus tent. Above them hangs a banner with a yoving text for publisher Gihaut. The clown beats a drum with a hole from which books fall.

You will make the Turkish carnage, but you will not type on the floor. / 3 (registered title) | Lithographic sketch for children by Charlet (title of all)

Here, I recognize them ... These are our kind men of the Red Castle! / 11 (title registered (letter)) | Commercial scenes. (Title of all)

Put off! And let it last goodbye! (...); New Hollandsche childrens prints. Leaf with 9 performances of different nature, such as performances of the departure of a sailing boat, from a resting man and a man in a canoe. Under every performance a six-perished verse. Numbered upper left: No. 31.

The evil tongues, Characters from Heinrich Libes piece The evil tongues from Kikeriki , Unknown

For the scrapbook; New Dutch childrens prints. Sheet with 24 performances of different nature, including performances of caricatural heads and figures. Numbered at the top right: No. 46.

A 1882 steel engraving by Albrecht Fürchtegott Schultheiss showing figures arriving on a dance floor, emphasizing social scene and attire.

Nine performances of human pastime and various animals; Leisure spending; Passe temps; Passe Tem. .

Die Willy. Prints. 1836. Jerome Robbins Dance Division

The theaterlog. A company in a theater logging with curtain and chandeliers. Three sitting women whose left has a range in her hand. Behind them three standing men whose court is in the shade.

Scène uit toneelstuk King Lear; Koning Lear. IIIe Bedrijf, IXe Tooneel..Scene from play Koning Lear with protagonists Lear, among other things, Kent and Gloucester during storm shooting at lightning through the air.

Two performances on the street. Above two sitting old women and to the right of them a girl sitting on the floor. At the bottom of a group of people at a cart.

'A Christmas Drawing Room Concert'. 'The Illustrated London News', 1885. Illustration by J.P. Atkinson.

Cabaret Scene 1936-41 Charles L. Sallee, Jr. American. Cabaret Scene. Charles L. Sallee, Jr. (American, Oberlin, Ohio 1913-2006 Cleveland, Ohio). 1936-41. Soft ground etching. Published by WPA. Prints

Prints after William Hogarth. Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Prints. 1790 - 1809. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Actors , England , 18th century, Ballroom dancing , 18th century, Theater audiences , Caricatures and cartoons

Six performances with carriage or cart. Pictured are a horse with carriage, a dog cart with child and supervisor, a horse with rider and a small barrel on wheels, a sled with wheels continued by a man, a petroleum cart with two soldiers and a broom cart.

- Negro Li favorite be drum .... / 1. (registered title) | In America (set of all)

From the life of Jan Klaassen, 1865 - 1875 print Leaf with 9 performances by Jan Klaassen, including Jan as a sailor, as an envoy, and as a cord dancer. A caption under each image. Numbered at the top right: No. 55. publisher: Amsterdamprinter: Haarlem paper letterpress printing Punch and Judy. puppet and marionette show

EH! LAZZARONE! ... you forget your guitar! .... / I do not need it anymore! ... Here are the Sicilians! ... I only play legs! .... (title registered) | News. (Title of the set)

On the season situation, Caricature on the seasonal situation of the Wiener Theater, and a, With Strampfer, Swoboda, Strakosch, Lauber, Dingelstedt etc, from Der Kaktus , Dombi, Caricaturist

1. Cartoon of the Moscow Art Theatre troika; 2. Cartoon of naked Konstantin Stanislavsky playing a pipe K. S. Stanislavskii. Caricatures. 1918. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 1863-1938

The athlete Rappo and his son as a monkey and imitating Klischniggs in the magic games Sisiphus costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver

Faust and Marguerite. / 7. (title registered (letter)) | Famous lovers. (Title of all)

Kinderschouwburg / De Page. Play play in 2 companies, 1850 print Leaf with 4 performances of actors on the stage of a theater. In the foreground public. Above each performance a title and under every performance Versrules. Numbered at the top right: No. 87, numbered at the bottom right: (4.). Publisher: Purmerendprint Maker: Netherlands paper letterpress printing actor (on the stage). the audience ~ art performance

Rejane rehearses for her role in a Paris production. 1 of 3 Date: 1890

Black hat waltz ,

Seed Study of La Marseillaise, litografia z Serii The good musical heads W: The Charivari Aubert et Cie (Fl. CA 1840 1860), Bouchot

Portrait of actress Marthe Brandès and actor Charles Le Bargy in play Les Cabotins; Brandès et le Bargy Dance Cabotins. Actress Marthe Brandès and actor Charles Le Bargy on stage during a scene in the studio of sculptor Cardevent in the play les Cabotins. The actors have disagreement as clear from body modes and facial expressions.

Vindobona, A funny Moravia by O, Berg illustrated from flea, Repertoire piece of the Carl-Theater, Josefine Gallmeyer, Blasel, Matras, Knaack, scenes from Vindobona , a funny fairy tale by O, Berg, repertoire piece of the Carl Theater caricature sequence from The Flea , Friedrich Graetz Grätz -, Caricaturist

The Imperial Circus, Johan Braakensiek, 1900 Amsterdam paper political caricatures and satires. historical persons. ruler, sovereign

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