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William Henry West Betty as Eumenes
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsarms in chains. With text: "Heavens did I hear that rightly!"
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Jacinta in "Lovers' Quarrels"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, walking with clenched fists. With text: "No, but you may carry that, sirrah."
Maria Gibbs as Rosa in "Obi"
Image | 1801 | Portraits of Actorscoat and waistcoat.
Portrait of Clara Fisher when a child actress
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, seated, hands crossed. With text: "The Lilliputian performer who acquired great celebrity at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1818."
Sarah Liston (nee Tyrer) as Maria
Image | 1809 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding apron to face. With text "I wonder you an't ashamed of yourself to affront a young girl in this manner. I'll go and tell my papa. I will. I will. I will."
Harriet Siddons, when Miss Murray, as Amanthis in "A Child of Nature"
Image | 1801 | Portraits of ActorsThe looks of Heaven! and Heaven adorns her mind."
Eliza Walstein as Calista in "The Fair Penitent"
Image | 1814 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in front of a table with a skull on it, holding a dagger.
Maria Foote as Lucille in "The Forest of Bondy"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of Actorswearing long straight gown with bib, sandals.
Rosoman Mountain (Wilkinson) as Peggy in "The Gentle Shepherd"
Image | 1809 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, with plaid cloth draped over arm. With text: "Ye meadows, where we often stray'd, Ye banks where we were wont to wander."
Portrait of Phyllis Frances Glover
Image | 1822 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
Portrait of Miss Hallande
Image | 1821 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing long veil falling over shoulders.
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of Actorsclaymore sword in right hand, raised, another in left hand, point on ground. With text: "My Mother's Voice! I can Protect thee still." Act V, Scene 1.
Portrait of Miss Edmiston
Image | 1822 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait. Wearing ruff around neck.
William Thomas Lewis as the Copper Captain in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1808 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text "Alas. I am a fellow of no reckoning! Nor worth a lady's eye."
Edmund Kean as Zanga in "The Revenge"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of Actorslooking at dagger in upraised right hand. With text: "But one thing grieves me since my death is near, I leave thee my example how to die".
Portrait of Catherine M. Forde
Image | 1822 | Portraits of Actorsdrapes in background.
Maria Rebecca Davison (nee Duncan) as Lady Bell in "Know Your Own Mind"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Pointing to paper held up in left hand. With text: "Ha, ha, ha! so whimsical a character." When Miss Duncan.
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Mrs. Beverley and John Philip Kemble as Mr. Beverley in a scene from "The Gamester"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Mrs. Beverely kneeling and supporting Mr. Beverley, seated on floor. With text: "O! For a few short Moments! to tell you how my Heart bleeds for you."
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Jane Shore in "Jane Shore"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "This is the Door of my Alicia. Blessed Opportunity."
Sarah Smith (married name Bartley) as Imoinda in "Oroonoko"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsscarf draped over arms.
Portrait of Margaret Agnes Bunn when Miss Somerville
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing dress with short sleeves, necklace.
Harriot Mellon as Anne Lovely in "A Bold Stroke for a Wife"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, arms folded, wearing cap and apron. With text: "I greatly fear the flesh, and the weakness thereof hum."
Maria Rebecca Davison (nee Duncan) as Clarinda in "The Suspicious Husband"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding mask in right hand. When Miss Duncan. With text: "Ha, ha! Your servant, cousin Ranger__Ha, ha, ha!"
Miss Bishop as Rosina in "Rosina"
Image | 1810 | Portraits of Actorswearing straw bonnet with flowers, long gown. With text: "If I have done wrong, Sir, I will put what I have gleaned down again."
William Henry West Betty as Zanga in "The Revenge"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing turban. With text: "Zanga: 'That dagger found will cause her to enquire.'"
Dorothy Jordan as Lydia Languish in "The Rivals"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding book. With text: "What a scene am I now to go through!" Act III, Scene 2.
Dorothy Jordan as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, playing "The Willow" on a lute.
Harriot Mellon as Louisa Dudley in "The West Indian"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "The man of my heart, Madam?"
Lydia Kelly as Ophelia in "Hamlet"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of Actorsbasket of flowers in right hand.
Eliza O'Neill as Isabella
Image | 1814 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding ring. With text: "This ring, this little ring, with necromantic force, is rais'd the ghost of pleasure to my fears."
Portrait of Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, holding lorgnette (eyeglasses).
Lady Mary Catherine Thurlow, when Mary Bolton, as Eliza
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, wearing bonnet tied under chin. With text: "La'as sure as I'm alive, you are the agreeable Gentleman that the drummer told me about, ain't you Sir?"
Portrait of Alexander Rae
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsPortrait, bust.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1814 | Portraits of Actorsholding sword. With text: "Ha! soft! twas but a dream".
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1814 | Portraits of Actorsholding sword. Colored print.
Portrait of Frances Maria Kelly
Image | 1821 | Portraits of Actorsdrapery in background.
Charles Kemble as George Barnwell in "George Barnwell"
Image | 1813 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated by a table, in chains. With text: "What avails it to think on what I might have been! I now am".
William Henry West Betty as Warwick and Harriet Siddons (nee Murray) as Lady Gray in a scene from "The Earl of Warwick"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. Warwick seated leaning on left arm to right, Lady Gray to left bending over him. With text: "Warwick: 'Wilt thou indeed? Then I shall die in peace.' Eliz: 'Yet thou may'st live.'"
Elizabeth Billington (nee Weichsel) as Mandane in "Artaxerxes"
Image | 1801 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. In outdoor setting. Wearing headdress with plumes.
Elizabeth Billington (nee Weichsel) as Rosetta in "Love in a Village"
Image | 1801 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing in outdoor setting holding bouquet of flowers. Oval in rectangle.

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