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

Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Horatia in "Roman Father"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. With text: "The heart which dents like mine must break to be at ease." Act IV.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Orestes in "Electra"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing armor and helmet with plume. With text: "He is, if I am so."
John Moody as Teague in "The Committee"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Upon my soul I believe he's dead."
John Henderson as Don John in "The Chances"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, carrying a child. With text: "Was ever Man so paid for being curious?" Act I, Scene 3.
Elizabeth Hopkins (later Mrs. Michael Sharp) as Arethusa in "Philaster"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Where am I now? Feet find me out a way". Act IV, Scene 2.
George Mattocks as Achilles in "Achilles in Petticoats"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, in woman's clothes, holding sword and shield. With text: "Was Hector here, the fate of Troy should this instant be decided."
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Sir Harry Wildair in "The Constant Couple"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsSmall whole-length. With text: "They are the prettiest Castagnets in the World." Act II, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Pope, when Miss Younge, as Ethelinda in "The Royal Convert"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "I disdain those Gods."
Elizabeth Pope, when Miss Younge, as Mrs. Clerimont in "The Tender Husband"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Look at his youth & Innocence."
Richard Wilson as Patie in "The Gentle Shepherd"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing plaid breeches, coat, waistcoat. With text: "Hear how I serv'd my lass, I love as weel as ye do Jenny."
Thomas King as Captain Bobadil in "Every Man in His Humour"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, sword in outstretched right hand. With text: "Challenge twenty more, kill them". Act IV, Scene 2.
Jane Lessingham as Flora
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text "-- and are like to live, fretting one another like silk and worsted wove together, till we quite wear out."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Eurydice
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "Why Love renounc'd thee ere thou Saw'st the light."
Charlotte Melmoth as Queen Elizabeth in "The Earl of Essex"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Unhappy man! My yielding soul is touch'd."
James William Dodd as Faddle in "The Foundling"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. With text: "Now for a secret worth twenty pieces." Act III, Scene 2.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Corinna in "The Confederacy"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-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
Thomas King as Sosia in "Amphitryon"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing striped breeches and doublet
Samuel Foote as Zachary Fungus in "The Commissary"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, right hand and arm extended, left hand on hip. With text: "When I consider the vast Importance." Act 1.
Anne Catley (married name Lascelles) as Rachel in "The Jovial Crew"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. With text: "I mean, stark, errant, downright Beggars." Act I, Scene 3.

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