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Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Elvira in "Elvira"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, hair dressed high with feathers and long veil. With text: "Were those of Duty, Sr he is my Husband". Act V, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Jane Shore in "Jane Shore"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "My good Neighbour! your good wishes still pursue my hapless fortune". Act I, Scene 2.
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Lady Jane Grey in "Lady Jane Grey"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsbook propped on table at left.
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Elvira in "The Spanish Fryar"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding up veil. With text: "but however I will not stand with you for a sample."
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Phaedra in "Phaedra & Hippolitus"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorsholding sword in hand. With text: "Now, all ye kindred Gods, look down and see How I'll revenge you, and myself on Phaedra." Act III, Scene 4.
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Sophonisba in "Sophonisba"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of Actorsfeathers and crown on head. With text: "Assure him that I drank it, drank it all, With an unalter'd Smile." Act V, Scene 7.
John Palmer as Don Carlos in "Ximena"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing breeches with slashes, jockey boots, holding hat. With text: "My injur'd sword shall prove this arm ne'er drew it but in right of honor."
Jane Pope as Rosetta in "The Foundling"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding a letter. With text: "Is it not very polite, Colonel?"
Mary Ann Powell as Boadicea in "Boadicea"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing crown, holding staff. With text: "Not the wealth which loads the palaces of sumptuous Rome shal bribe my fury."
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Mrs. Pinchwife in "The Country Wife"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing with hands under bib. Wearing ribbon in hair and dress with ribbon ornaments. With text: "Nay, I will go abroad, that's once." Act III, Scene 2.
Jane Lessingham as Oriana in "The Inconstant"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing petticoats with decorative trim. With text: "I am proud of my power and am resolved to use it."
William Thomas Lewis as the Copper Captain in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing military uniform. With text: "Alas. I am a fellow of no reckoning! Nor worth a lady's eye."
Anne Catley (married name Lascelles) as Rachel in "The Jovial Crew"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing skirt with multiple layers, bustle. With text: "I mean, stark, errant, downright Beggars." Act I, Scene 3.
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Sophonisba in "Sophonisba"
Image | 1788 | Portraits of Actorsfeathers and crown on head. Colored print. With text: "Assure him that I drank it, drank it all, with an unalter'd smile." Act V, Scene 7.
Robert Bensley as Mahomet in "Mahomet"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of Actorsholding scimitar. With text: "Such be the fate of all who braves our Law." Act V, Scene 5.
Harriet Pye Esten (nee Bennett) as Belvidera in "Venice Preserved"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, kneeling, holding up large veil with hand, outside of building.
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Cleopatra in "All For Love"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing crown with feathers dagger in right hand. With text: "I'll die, I will not bear it". Act V, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Hopkins (later Mrs. Michael Sharp) as Arethusa in "Philaster"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "Yes_I must have thy Kingdoms_must have thee!" Act I, Scene 6.
Elizabeth Hopkins (later Mrs. Michael Sharp) as Irene in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Blest is Irene! Blest if Selim lives!" Act III, Scene 2.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing in interior setting. Wearing dress with ribbon ornaments and headdress with plumes. With text: "Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray, Can make tomorrow chearful as to-day" Act III, Scene 1.
Edward Anthony Rock as Teague in "The Committee"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, outdoors on street, wrapped in blanket. With text: "A poor Irishman, Heaven save me."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Publius in "The Roman Father"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of Actorsholding truncheon.
Thomas King as Lord Ogleby in "The Clandestine Marriage"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding snuff box. With text: "I'll not be lefft among your Sterlings, your Heidelburgs, and Devilburgs". Act IV, Scene II.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Electra in "Orestes"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, manacled, holding urn. With text: "O dear memorial of my dearest friend, Ye scanty. Reliques of Orestes, Oh!"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Isabella in "Isabella"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "Indeed I am most wretched!"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Virginia in "Virginia"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-lengt portrait. With text: "For tho! I love, yet still I am a Roman."
Mrs. Mahon as Fanny in "The Accomplished Maid"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing a dress decorated with flowers, holding a watering can. With text "How bountiful has Providence been in alloting me such humane benefactors!"
John Quick as Alderman Smuggler in "The Constant Couple"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, in women's attire. With text: "Ashamed of! O Lord Sir, I'm an honest old Woman, that never was ashamed of anything."
Elizabeth Pope (nee Younge) as Zara in "The Mourning Bride"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in chains, wearing gown with geometric-pattern trim and headdress. With text: "but when I feel these bonds, I look with loathing on myself."
Anna Maria Crouch (nee Phillips) as Polly in "The Beggar's Opera"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Interior setting.
George Mattocks as Achilles in "Achilles in Petticoats"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding sword and shield. With text: "How I pant! How I burn for the fight."
Maria Macklin as Camillo in "The Mistake"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing a cape and holding a hat with a plume. With text: "Then wonder farther still I am his wife."
William Parsons as Dumps in "The Natural Son"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, waistcoat buttoned wrong and holding bottle and glass. With text: "You never gave me a chance to get tipsy in your service."
William Parsons as Periwinkle in "A Bold Stroke for a Wife"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorscape, hat. With text: "Oh, Mr. Sackbut, why do you name the Devil when perhaps he may be at your Elbow?
Samuel Foote as Fondlewife in "The Old Bachelor"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsresting on stick. With text: "Speak, I say have you consider'd what it is to Cuckold your Husband?" Act IV, Scene 4.
William Farren as Sir Charles Easy in "The Careless Husband"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated, table behind him. With text: "Well, don't be uneasy___I am not angry with you now_Come and kiss me." Act V, Scene 2.
Joseph Vernon as Macheath in "The Beggar's Opera"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding glass. With text: "If thus a Man can Die, Much bolder with Brandy."
Mary Bulkley (nee Wilford) as Lady Dainty in "The Double Gallant"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorsfeathers in hair. With text: "An Ironmongers Wife have the Spleen! thou mights't as well have said her husband was a fine Gentleman." Act III, Scene 1.
Mary Bulkley (nee Wilford) as Mrs. Wilding in "The Gamsters"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of Actorsholding fan.
James William Dodd as Lord Foppington in "The Careless Husband"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding tricorne hat. With text: "Why two hours, and six of the best nags in Christendom, or the Devil drive me." Act II, Scene 3.

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