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Roberts, J.
44
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1
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Westall, R.
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1777
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J. Bell
75
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Actors
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Costume
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Theater
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Women in the theater
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10
Performing arts
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7
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6
Barry, Ann, 1734-1801
5
Hartley, Elizabeth, 1750?-1824
5
Yates, Mrs. (Mary Ann), 1728-1784
5
Smith, William, 1730-1819
4
Abington, Mrs., (Frances Barton), 1737-1815
3
Bulkley, Mary, 1748-1792
3
Composers
3
Pope, Jane, 1742-1818
3
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
3
Baddeley, Robert, 1733-1794
2
Bensley, Robert, 1742-1817
2
Billington, Elizabeth, 1768-1818
2
Catley, Ann, 1745-1789
2
Comedians
2
Crouch, Anna Maria, 1763-1805
2
Dancers
2
Farren, William, 1754-1795
2
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
2
Hunter, Maria, fl. 1782
2
King, Thomas, 1730-1805
2
Palmer, John, 1742?-1798
2
Parsons, William, 1736-1795
2
Quick, John, 1748-1831
2
Sharp, Elizabeth, b. 1756
2
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2
Theater
1
Baddeley, Sophia, 1745?-1786
1
Breeches parts
1
Brunton, Louisa, ca. 1785-1860
1
Chapman, Miss, d. 1805
1
Child actors
1
Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796
1
Esten, Harriet Pye, ca. 1765-1865
1
Greville, Mrs., d. 1802
1
Henderson, John, 1747-1785
1
Holman, J. G. (Joseph George), 1764-1817
1
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
1
Kemble, Priscilla, 1758-1854
1
Lessingham, Jane, 1739?-1783
1
Lewes, Charles Lee, Mrs., fl. 1792
1
Lewis, William Thomas, 1749-1811
1
Macklin, Maria, ca. 1733-1781
1
Mahon, Mrs., fl. 1781?
1
Mattocks, George, d. 1804
1
Mattocks, Isabella, 1746-1826
1
Pope, Elizabeth, ca. 1740-1797
1
Powell, Mary Ann, 1761-1831
1
Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
1
Rock, Edward Anthony, d. 1815
1
Rock, Mrs. (Edward Anthony), fl. 1785-1791
1
Storace, Anna Selina, 1765-1817
1
Vernon, Joseph, 1737 or 8-1782
1
Wrighten, Mary Ann, 1751?-1796
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Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Elvira in "Elvira"
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Jane Shore in "Jane Shore"
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Lady Jane Grey in "Lady Jane Grey"
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Elvira in "The Spanish Fryar"
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Phaedra in "Phaedra & Hippolitus"
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Sophonisba in "Sophonisba"
John Palmer as Don Carlos in "Ximena"
Jane Pope as Rosetta in "The Foundling"
Mary Ann Powell as Boadicea in "Boadicea"
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Mrs. Pinchwife in "The Country Wife"
Jane Lessingham as Oriana in "The Inconstant"
William Thomas Lewis as the Copper Captain in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Anne Catley (married name Lascelles) as Rachel in "The Jovial Crew"
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Sophonisba in "Sophonisba"
Robert Bensley as Mahomet in "Mahomet"
Harriet Pye Esten (nee Bennett) as Belvidera in "Venice Preserved"
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Cleopatra in "All For Love"
Elizabeth Hopkins (later Mrs. Michael Sharp) as Arethusa in "Philaster"
Elizabeth Hopkins (later Mrs. Michael Sharp) as Irene in "Barbarossa"
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Edward Anthony Rock as Teague in "The Committee"
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Publius in "The Roman Father"
Thomas King as Lord Ogleby in "The Clandestine Marriage"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Electra in "Orestes"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Isabella in "Isabella"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Virginia in "Virginia"
Mrs. Mahon as Fanny in "The Accomplished Maid"
John Quick as Alderman Smuggler in "The Constant Couple"
Elizabeth Pope (nee Younge) as Zara in "The Mourning Bride"
Anna Maria Crouch (nee Phillips) as Polly in "The Beggar's Opera"
George Mattocks as Achilles in "Achilles in Petticoats"
Maria Macklin as Camillo in "The Mistake"
William Parsons as Dumps in "The Natural Son"
William Parsons as Periwinkle in "A Bold Stroke for a Wife"
Samuel Foote as Fondlewife in "The Old Bachelor"
William Farren as Sir Charles Easy in "The Careless Husband"
Joseph Vernon as Macheath in "The Beggar's Opera"
Mary Bulkley (nee Wilford) as Lady Dainty in "The Double Gallant"
Mary Bulkley (nee Wilford) as Mrs. Wilding in "The Gamsters"
James William Dodd as Lord Foppington in "The Careless Husband"
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Elvira in "Elvira"
Image | 1778 |
Portraits of Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
book propped on table at left.
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Elvira in "The Spanish Fryar"
Image | 1777 |
Portraits of Actors
Whole-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 Actors
holding 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 Actors
feathers 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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-length portrait, holding a letter. With text: "Is it not very polite, Colonel?"
Mary Ann Powell as Boadicea in "Boadicea"
Image | 1791 |
Portraits of Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
feathers 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 Actors
holding 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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
holding truncheon.
Thomas King as Lord Ogleby in "The Clandestine Marriage"
Image | 1792 |
Portraits of Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-length portrait, standing. With text: "Indeed I am most wretched!"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Virginia in "Virginia"
Image | 1778 |
Portraits of Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-length. Interior setting.
George Mattocks as Achilles in "Achilles in Petticoats"
Image | 1777 |
Portraits of Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
cape, 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 Actors
resting 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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
Whole-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 Actors
feathers 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 Actors
holding fan.
James William Dodd as Lord Foppington in "The Careless Husband"
Image | 1776 |
Portraits of Actors
Whole-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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