*"The Dance of the Apsaras," a relief from Bharhut, in the Indian Museum, Calcutta; a photogravure (1925)*

Source: ebay, June 2006

A dancing girl from Akbar's time

Source: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail.asp?sid=&intObjectID=4457057&SE=CMWCAT03+253294+768619890+&QR=M+1+60+Aqc0000900+246917++Aqc0000900+&entry=india&SU=1&RQ=True&AN=61
(downloaded Mar. 2005)

"A Dancer Accompanied by Musicians. India, Mughal, late 16th Century. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, the central figures playing against a mountain backdrop set within a square with rectangular cartouche bearing a two column inscription in nastaliq, the album leaf painted with gold flowers; the reverse with two column inscription in a rectangular cartouche. Folio: 9¾ x 6¼ in. (24.8 x 15.9 cm.)."

*Dancing girls and musicians from Madras, a drawing by Christopher Green, c.1800* (BL)

"A girl dancing the khuarwa," published in London, 1813

Source: ebay, Oct. 2004

"Danza delle Ram-genve ossieno Ballerine," by Giulio Ferrario, from Il Costume Antico et Moderno, 1828 edition; *a closer view*

Source: ebay,  June 2006

"Danza dei Ballerini delli Balok," by Giulio Ferrario, from Il Costume Antico et Moderno, 1828 edition; *a closer view*

Source: ebay, July 2006

"Devedassis or Bayaderes," by Frederic Shoberl, 'The World in Miniature: Hindoostan' (London: R. Ackerman, 1820's)

Source: ebay, Aug. 2005

"A Nautch Girl or public female singer of India," by Mrs. Belnos, London, c.1832

Source: ebay, Oct. 2004

"A Nautch," from 'Views in India, Saint Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by John Luard' (London: Dickinson, 1838)

Source: ebay, Dec. 2006

*A Nautch in the Palace of the Ameer of Sind [1808], by Capt. Melville Grindlay, 1841*; [*Grindlay 1841*]

"Dancing Girls of the Punjab," a steel engraving, 1840's

Source: ebay,  Nov. 2005

*"A Hindoo Festival Dance" from Ballou's Pictorial, 1858*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2006

See also the *MELA, or festival* page, which shows many images of dancing girls