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

Julia Glover as Mrs. Candour in "The School for Scandal"
Image | 1831 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing, wearing gloves, hat with many plumes, holding fan.
Clara Ellis as Evande in "Evadne"
Image | 1893 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. Wearing long veil, jewelry. Process print from a lithograph by J.W. Gear.
Harriet D. Taylor as Nina in "The Carnival of Naples"
Image | 1831 | Portraits of Actors/ Yet Snap the thorn away / Who wears it need not fear: / Ah! now in gentle play / I'll bind my fair rose here."
John Cooper as John of Paris
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding switch in right hand, hat held behind, legs crossed.
John Webster as Nicholas Nickleby, Richard John Smith (O. Smith) as Newman Noggs and Mary Anne Keeley as Smike in "Nicholas Nickleby"
Image | Portraits of Actorssmike seated on the floor. With text: "Is this the boy of desperate character? Poor fellow! Poor fellow!" (This may be Webster, John, 1810-1851).
William Dowton as Sir Oliver Surface in "School for Scandal"
Image | Portraits of Actorsholding cane.