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Robert Bensley as Barbarossa and Maria Macklin as Irene in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorsmale figure in background. With text: "Off frantic wretch!" (Play is spelled "Barberossa")
Robert Bensley as Pierre in a scene from "Venice Preserved"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorswith four other figures. With text: "Who's he disputes the Judgement of the Senate? Presumptuous Rebel." Act IV, Scene 2.
Edmund Kean as Lucius Junius Brutus in "Brutus"
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait. Facsimilie autograph.
David Garrick as Lusignan and Miss Younge (Elizabeth Pope) as Zara in a scene from "Zara"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Zara standing before Lusignan, two men standing behind his chair. With text: "Lus: 'Yes_Yes_'tis she! this little Cross'". Act II, Scene 3.
Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon, Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon, and Mr. Thompson as Nabson in a scene from "Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Sir William holding on to the arm of Miss Dorillon. With text: Sir William: "There is your prisoner."
Robert Bensley as Mahomet in "Mahomet"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actors3 men in background. With text: "Ma: Thou Alcoran! hast won more Battles for me, than thrice my feeble Numbers had atchiev'd, without the succour of thy sacred impulse." Act II, Scene 2.
Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon and Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon in a scene from "Wives as They Were & Maids as They Are"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsScene showing the Sir William with his hand on a door handle. With text: "Do not deliver me up I am unfortunate."

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Robert Bensley as Barbarossa and Maria Macklin as Irene in "Barbarossa"

Robert Bensley as Pierre in a scene from "Venice Preserved"

Edmund Kean as Lucius Junius Brutus in "Brutus"

David Garrick as Lusignan and Miss Younge (Elizabeth Pope) as Zara in a scene from "Zara"

Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon, Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon, and Mr. Thompson as Nabson in a scene from "Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are"

Robert Bensley as Mahomet in "Mahomet"

Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon and Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon in a scene from "Wives as They Were & Maids as They Are"

Robert Bensley as Barbarossa and Maria Macklin as Irene in "Barbarossa"

Robert Bensley as Pierre in a scene from "Venice Preserved"

Edmund Kean as Lucius Junius Brutus in "Brutus"

David Garrick as Lusignan and Miss Younge (Elizabeth Pope) as Zara in a scene from "Zara"

Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon, Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon, and Mr. Thompson as Nabson in a scene from "Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are"

Robert Bensley as Mahomet in "Mahomet"

Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon and Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon in a scene from "Wives as They Were & Maids as They Are"