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Portrait of William Abbot

William Abbot as Colonel Mannering in "Guy Mannering"

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Charlotte in "The Hypocrite"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Clarinda in "The Suspicious Husband"

Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) and Frances Abington (nee Barton) in the Characters of the Tragic and Comic Muses

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as the Comic Muse

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Corinna in "The Confederacy"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Betty Modish in "The Careless Husband"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Harriet in "The Funeral"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Sadlife in "The Double Gallant"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lappet

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Miss Prue in "Love For Love"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Mrs. Pinchwife in "The Country Wife"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Olivia in "Twelfth Night"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Phillis in "Conscious Lovers"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia and Lord Shelburne as Malagrida

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"

Miss Abrams as Sylvia in "Cymon"

Portrait of Edwin Adams

Portrait of William Abbot
ImageHalf-length. In Roman dress, wearing short sleeves, toga, and high collar.
William Abbot as Colonel Mannering in "Guy Mannering"
ImageWhole length. Wearing long coat and boots, holding hat. With text: "I know you, and if you do not instantly descend those stairs, by the heaven above us, you shall take but one step from the top to the bottom."
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1779Whole-length. Hands clasped, wearing dress with rose embellishments and ruffles. With text: "Oh that dear Sparta! Their Women had a Noble Magna Charta."
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1772Half-length. Wearing glove only in right hand.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1772Half-length.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1772Half-length, wearing glove in right hand only.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1783Half-length. Wearing headdress with plumes.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
ImageBust.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
ImageBust. Wearing necklace of pearls, hair braided.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1798Bust. Wearing large hat with feathers, ribbon and wide brim. Lace and ribbon on top of dress. Curly hair.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
ImageBust. Wearing large hat with feathers, ribbon and wide brim. Lace and ribbon on top of dress. Curly hair.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1891Bust. Wearing hat with feathers, ribbon and wide brim. Lace and ribbon on top of dress.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1797Half-length, looking through curtain.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
ImageFull-length. In restoration costume dress with ornaments and tassles.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"
Image | 1777Whole-length. Wearing dress with ornaments and headdress with plumes, holding a fan. With text: "No, no, I'm resolved against a man that disappears all the summer like a Woodcock." Act II, Scene 1.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"
ImageThree-quarter-length. Wearing dress with ornaments and headdress with plumes, holding fan. With text from Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson: "1811_June 16th___met the once celebrated Mrs. Abington__She herself laughed at her snub nose"
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Charlotte in "The Hypocrite"
Image | 1786Whole-length standing, facing left to male figure. Wearing dress with ornaments, headdress with plume, holding fan. With text: "How! Two Thousand Pounds!"Act IV, Scene 1.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Clarinda in "The Suspicious Husband"
Image | 1779Whole-length standing. Wearing dress with ornaments, headdress with plumes, holding open fan.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) and Frances Abington (nee Barton) in the Characters of the Tragic and Comic Muses
ImageWhole-length. Holding props.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as the Comic Muse
Image | 1783Whole-length standing, leaning on pedestal, holding mask in hand.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Corinna in "The Confederacy"
Image | 1779Whole-length. Wearing dress with ornaments, headdress with plumes. With text: "O Lord, a letter! is there ever a token in it?" Act 2.d, Scene 1st
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1776holding chain. With text: "And here's a Chain of Whitings Eyes for Pearls, a Musell monger would have made a better."
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1776holding up chain with cross. With text: "And here's a Chain of Whitings Eyes for Pearls, A Musell monger would have made a better."
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
ImageWhole-length. Wearing hat with plumes, holding a pistol.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1771Whole-length. Wearing green dress and holding pistol. Colored print.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Betty Modish in "The Careless Husband"
Image | 1777wearing dress with ornaments, large headdress with plumes, holding fan in left hand, gloves in right. With text: "How handsomely does he reproach me! But I can't bear that he should think I know it." Act V, Sc. VI
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Harriet in "The Funeral"
Image | 1780holding open fan. With text: "I can as ingeniously as I should then, acknowledge that I have been in an Error?" Act II. Sc. 2
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Sadlife in "The Double Gallant"
Image | 1777Whole-length portrait, standing with Atall in interior setting. With text: "Olud! I'm going home this minute: And if you shou'd offer to dog my Chair, I protest I_was ever such usage_Lord_sure! oh_follow me down then." Act II, Sc 2
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lappet
ImageWhole-length. Line drawing printed in maroon ink.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Miss Prue in "Love For Love"
Image | 1777here will you have any?" Act 2, Scene 10
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Mrs. Pinchwife in "The Country Wife"
Image | 1777Whole-length, standing with hands under bib. Wearing ribbon in hair and dress with ribbon ornaments. With text: "Nay, I will go abroad, that's once." Act III, Scene 2.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Olivia in "Twelfth Night"
Image | 1779Whole-length. Wearing long veil. With text: "Look you, Sir, such a one I wear." Act I, Scene 9
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Phillis in "Conscious Lovers"
Image | 1776Whole-length, standing in interior with male figure in background. With text: "Oh here is my Young Mistress. Go ye Liquorish Fool" Act III, Scene 4
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia
ImageWhole-length standing to left of draped pedestal, holding mask in right hand.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia
Image | 1834Whole-length standing to left of draped pedestal, mask in right hand.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia and Lord Shelburne as Malagrida
Image | 1777Busts.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Imageholding book in hand. With text: "Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray, Can make tomorrow chearful as to day." Act III, Scene 1.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Image | 1792Whole-length, standing in interior setting. Wearing dress with ribbon ornaments and headdress with plumes. With text: "Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray, Can make tomorrow chearful as to-day" Act III, Scene 1.
Miss Abrams as Sylvia in "Cymon"
Image | 1778Whole-length. Wearing purple and yellow dress, wearing hat and holding basket. With text: "Oh why should we sorrow who never knew sin..." In color.
Portrait of Edwin Adams
ImageBust. Wearing coat, vest and bow tie. Magazine clipping.

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