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Fairy Dance.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

Fairy Dance. By W. E. Frost, R.A. From a book of poems by the Rev. T. J. Judkin. Seven women, all barefoot and several topless, are dancing on a beach, weaving in and around one another by a natural [...]

Keywords: people, dance, spirit, bare feet, beaches, nudity, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-26

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The Dancing DollsThe Table Book of Art (1880)

Burnett’s The Dancing Dolls Simple and home-like. A little Italian boy, with puppets, has “struck luck,” in finding a grandfather and grandmother entertaining two grandchildren. Delight is universal [...]

Keywords: art, people, children, toys, games, interiors, dolls, dance, greyscale

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Added: 2012-11-15

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A Dance of ShepherdessesMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881)

The drawing reproduced as an engraving shows three women, barefoot and in ankle-length short-sleeved dresses. One is seated, playing divided pipes; she’s sitting on the steps of a circular neo-Classic [...]

Keywords: dance, dancing, people, women, bare feet, temples, columns, music, pipes, sheep, animals, trees, water, pillars, spring, fecundity, greyscale

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Added: 2019-01-26

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G. Tornai: At the haremModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A woman, baring her breasts, is dancing in a harem, one arm over her heard, her feet bare. In the background a musician plays a lyre; another woman serves Moroccan-style tea on an octagonal side-table [...]

Keywords: harems, slavers, slavery, nudity, breasts, women, people, dancing, music, dance, oriental, middle eastern, interiors, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2019-05-16

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