How to dance. A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with

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Dance:: Ballroom
Era:: Late 1800s (Victorian Ballroom)
Source:: loc
Rights:: Public domain — free to use, share and adapt.
Recorded as:: public_domain

How to dance. A complete ball-room and party guide. Containing all the latest figures, together with is an artwork in the LODance gallery of dance in art, depicting ballroom. It's one of thousands of historic images tracing how dancing has been seen and celebrated across the centuries.

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Hand-coloured engraving showing a street puppeteer operating two dancing marionettes for a group of delighted children in 1830s London.

Black-and-white photograph of a crowded ballroom with a five-piece band on a raised platform, guests in formal attire dancing and socializing.

Engraving of a young man in 17th-century court dress holding a violin, standing in a composed pose.

A woman in a golden embroidered gown gestures toward a military officer in blue coat and armor, framed by ornate architecture in a ballroom

A grand Gilded Age ballroom with a gilt chandelier, neoclassical ornament, and polished parquet floor; no dancers are present.

Formal group portrait of 18 people in 1930s dress posed indoors at a ballroom with ornate architectural details visible behind them.