Photo de stock - Dancers' accidents Additional title: Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig, Germany). Johannot, Tony, 1803-1852 (Artist). Prints depicting dance Theatrical dancers, singly or in pairs. Date Issued: 1849 - 1860 (Questionable). Mademoiselle Marie im Ballet: ""Die Eilandsnymphe""; Illustrirte Zeitung, no. 297 - Neues Pas der Mademoiselle Marie im ""Befreiten Jerusalem""; Illustrirte Zeitung, no. 297 / gezeichnet von Tony Johannot - Terrible accident at the Volks Garten, Bowery, N.Y. Burning of Josephine Farren while performing on the tightrope. Farren, Josephine Dancing injuries. Prints Illustrations Clippings. Wood engravings Extent: 3 prints (2 sheets) : wood engraving, b&w ; 37 x 29 cm. or smaller. Illustrations from nineteenth-century periodicals, reporting mishaps that befell ballet dancers onstage. In a wood engraving from the German periodical Illustrirte Zeitung, ca. 1849, a dancer called Mademoiselle Marie appears to plunge over the footlights and into the orchestra pit. A more horrific accident is represented in a wood engraving from an American periodical, depicting the tightrope dancer Josephine Farren as her costume catches fire at the Volks Garten theatre in the Bowery, New York, in 1860. The sheet from the Illustrirte Zeitung also contains a print of Mademoiselle Marie in a calmer moment as she dances with a male partner in the ballet Die Eilandsnymphe. German English.