Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Dorothy Jordan as Peggy in "The Country Girl"
Image | 1799 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, walking, interior scene. With text: "No more, I will then, Bud_This is pure". Act II, Scene 2.
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".
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as the Widow Warren in "The Road to Ruin"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing a hat with three large plumes and holding an open fan in right hand. With text: "My scenic faults and follies laid aside, No widow now, nor disapointed bride, My own plain self I once again resume, Sent by the author here, to know his doom."
Charles Mathews as the French Valet
Image | Portraits of ActorsSeated, talking to the figure of a little boy which he is holding on his knee.
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 Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) in costume
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, with caption: "Mrs. Siddons in Tragedy" Believed to be etched by Cruikshank.
Maria Foote as Lucille in "The Forest of Bondy"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of Actorswearing long straight gown with bib, sandals.
Charlotte Mardyn as Amelia in "Lovers' Vows"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing long gloves and holding a fan and an eyeglass.
Margaret Martyr (Thornton) as Cherry in "The Beaux' Stratagem"
Image | 1799 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing apron, in interior setting. With text: "D'ye call, father!"
John Philip Kemble as George Barnwell in "George Barnwell"
Image | 1799 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, sitting in his cell, in fetters. With text: "What avails it to think on what I might have been! I now am". Act V, Scene 2.
John Philip Kemble as Cato in "Cato"
Image | 1799 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated, hand on hilt of sword resting on table, open book in left hand. With text: "It must be so__Plato, thou reasons't well_else why this pleasing hope". Act V, Scene 1.
John Philip Kemble as Cato in "Cato"
Image | Portraits of Actorsright hand on heart, book in left hand. With text: "It must be so plato, thou reasonest well".
Charles John Kean as Selim in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1827 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing turban, embroidered tunic and vest.
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.
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".
John Braham as Don Alphonso in "The Castle of Andalusia"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of Actorsholding letter in left hand. Colored print. With text: "Give him this Letter from me".
Eliza O'Neill as Monimia in "The Orphan"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding handkerchief. With text: "No nearer, lest I vanish."
Henry Gattie as Father Phillip
Image | Portraits of Actorsflagon in right hand, basket on left arm, torch or great candle in left hand.
John Liston as Paul Pry in "Paul Pry"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding top hat and umbrella. With text "Mr. Paul Pry in the Character of Mr. Liston. 'Just popp'd in, you know!'"

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