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

Richard Suett as Ibrahim in "Blue Beard"
Image | 1823 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing turban, robe with fur trim.
Richard Suett as Ralph in "The Maid of the Mill"
Image | 1809 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "I'll be hang'd now if she knows anymore about milking a cow than I do of sewing a petticoat."
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Euphrasia in "The Grecian Daughter"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding dagger in upraised hand. With text: "In a dear Father's Cause, a Woman's vengeance tow'rs above her Sex."
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Ismena in "Timanthes"
Image | 1795 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Where shall I fly? Night stretch thy blackest wings And hide us from mankind."
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Jane Shore in "Jane Shore"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing outside of a building. With text: "But now 'tis otherwise: and those who bless'd me, now curse me to my face."
Portrait of Ellen Terry
Image | 1900 | Portraits of ActorsNearly three-quarter-length portrait, seated, wearing lace scarf tied around neck and long gloves. Facsimile signature.
Ellen Terry as Letitia Hardy in "The Belle's Stratagem"
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, holding handkerchief, one corner in mouth.
Lady Mary Catherine Thurlow, when Mary Bolton, as Eliza
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, wearing bonnet tied under chin. With text: "La'as sure as I'm alive, you are the agreeable Gentleman that the drummer told me about, ain't you Sir?"
Portrait of Ann Maria Tree (married name Bradshaw)
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
Portrait of Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble)
Image | 1825 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait. Her name and Shakespeare's below.
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Cleone in "Cleone"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "I hear his voice, and this way he directs his hatred steps."
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Queen Katherine in "Henry VIII"
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length wearing jewel-encrusted crown, necklaces, robes.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Biron in "Love's Labour's Lost"
Image | Portraits of Actorscarrying sword, pointed hat with fur trim.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsholding chain. With text: "And here's a Chain of Whitings Eyes for Pearls, a Musell monger would have made a better."
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Betty Modish in "The Careless Husband"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorswearing dress with ornaments, large headdress with plumes, holding fan in left hand, gloves in right. With text: "How handsomely does he reproach me! But I can't bear that he should think I know it." Act V, Sc. VI
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Miss Prue in "Love For Love"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorshere will you have any?" Act 2, Scene 10
Miss Abrams as Sylvia in "Cymon"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing purple and yellow dress, wearing hat and holding basket. With text: "Oh why should we sorrow who never knew sin..." In color.
Elizabeth Austin as Rosetta in "Love in a Village"
Image | 1822 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing hat and dress with ribbon embellishments.
Robert Baddeley as Canton in "Clandestine Marriage"
Image | 1794 | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length. Seated, wearing spectacles.
Robert Baddeley as Trincalo in "The Tempest"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing coat, waistcoat, breeches.
Portrait of Sophia Baddeley and Captain William Hanger
Image | 1772 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length, each portait in separate oval.
Sophia Baddeley as Clarissa in "Lionel and Clarissa"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing dress with ribbon embellishments, hat with flowers.
Portrait of Alexina Baker (nee Fisher)
Image | Portraits of Actorsleft hand resting back of chair. Wearing bracelets. From crystallotype by McClees and Germon, Philadelphia.
Laura Addison as Queen Mary in "Mary Stuart"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing dress with cape and ornaments. With text: "O! woe To the unhappy victim, when the tongue That frames the law shall execute the sentence." Act I, Scene 1
Portrait of Edward Alleyn
Image | Portraits of ActorsPortrait, bust. Wearing hat and ruff. Evidently Allen in about 1615, from original painting at Dulwich College.
William Abbot as Colonel Mannering in "Guy Mannering"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole length. Wearing long coat and boots, holding hat. With text: "I know you, and if you do not instantly descend those stairs, by the heaven above us, you shall take but one step from the top to the bottom."
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1772 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) and Frances Abington (nee Barton) in the Characters of the Tragic and Comic Muses
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding props.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as the Comic Muse
Image | 1783 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length standing, leaning on pedestal, holding mask in hand.
John Bannister as Ben in "Love for Love"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of Actorsholding stick by little finger. Print colored in yellow, blue, orange, maroon. With text: "How say you Mistress? the short of the thing is, that if you like me and I like you, we may chance to swing in a hammock together", Act III.
John Bannister as Ben in "Love for Love"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsholding stick by little finger. With text: "How say you Mistress? the short of the matter is if you like me and I like you, we may chance to swing in a hammock together", Act III.
John Bannister as Dick in "The Apprentice"
Image | Portraits of Actorsholding hat.
George Almar as Cutpurse in "Cedar Chest"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of Actorsholding sheath.
Henry Angelo as Mrs. Cole in "The Minor"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, seated. Wearing bonnet, shawl, and women's dress.
Portrait of Charles Bannister
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsBust, profile. Tinted pink
Elizabeth Bannister (nee Harper) as Rosetta in "Love in a Village"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing hat and dress with lace embellishments. With text: "Gentle Youth, ah! tell me why", Song 328.
Portrait of Nathaniel Lee
Image | 1821 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
Jane Lessingham as Oriana in "The Inconstant"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text "And you, Sir, shall have hartshorn in abundance."
Portrait of John Liston
Image | 1846 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing high collars.
Portrait of John Liston
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.

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