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Laura Addison as Imogen in "Cymbeline"
Image | Portraits of Actorsand shall find it so In all that I can do." Act I, Scene 7.
John M. Vandenhoff as Coriolanus in "Coriolanus"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing toga, sandals. With text: "Most sweet voices! Better it is to die, better to starve, than crave the hire which first we do deserve."
James William Wallack as Gloucester (later King Richard III) in "Richard III"
Image | Portraits of ActorsEdward still lives and reigns, When they are gone then I must count my gains."
Portrait of Charlotte Cushman
Image | Portraits of ActorsNearly whole-length. Seated on chair at table holding book. Facsimilie signature.
Portrait of Henry Compton
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length. Facsimilie signature.
Alfred Sidney Wigan as Monsieur Tourbillon and Leonora Wigan (nee Pincott) as Virginie in "To Parents and Guardians"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Monsieur Tourbillon seated, Virginie kneeling before him. With text: Virginie: "Mon pere!" M. Tourbilion: "Ma fille!"
Portrait of William Evans Burton
Image | Portraits of ActorsBust, to right, face to front. Facsimilie signature.
Portrait of Edwin Forrest
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, imperial and side whiskers. Facsimilie signature.
Portrait of Fanny Cooper
Image | Portraits of ActorsNearly whole-length. Wearing brooch, holding book in right hand. Facsimilie signature.
Portrait of Charles John Kean
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, seated, looking to right. From a daguerreotype by Paine.
Charles Walter Couldock as Richard III
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing cape trimmed with ermine. With text: "Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull. Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead. And I would have it suddenly performed." Act IV, Scene 2.
Portrait of William B. Wood
Image | Portraits of ActorsPortrait, bust. From a daguerreotype by Simons.
Portrait of Gustavus Vaughn Brooke
Image | Portraits of Actorswearing ring on little finger. Facsimilie signature.
Henry Betty as Faulconbridge in "King John"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Interior castle setting. Wearing tunic, holding hat. With text: "Madam, I would not wish a better father" Act 1, Scene 1.
Portrait of Samuel Phelps
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
Portrait of Isabella Glyn
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, seated. Facsimilie signature.
Portrait of Isabella Glyn
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length, seated, wearing lace collar, cuffs.
Isabella Glyn as Queen Katherine in "Henry VIII"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated on chair, wearing lace, veil, and rope with tassles tied around waist. With text: "Good Griffith, Cause the musicians play me that sad note I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating on that celestial harmony I go to". Act IV, Scene 2.
Portrait of Edwin Forrest at age 45
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, profile
McKean Buchanan as Othello in "Othello"
Image | Portraits of Actorsholding long sword. With text: "Let him do his spite: My services, which I have done the signiory shall out-tongue his complaints." Act I, Scene 2. From a
John Baldwin Buckstone as Tom Dribbles and Mrs. Fitzwilliam as the Orphan Nan in "Good for Nothing"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Nan standing wearing apron, Tom sitting wearing tall hat and plaid coat, shaking his finger at her.
Portrait of William Evans Burton
Image | Portraits of ActorsBust. Facsimilie signature.
Portrait of George John Bennett
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length. Long curls covering ears. Facsimilie signature.
Portrait of Henry Leigh Murray
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait. Facsimile signature. From a daguerreotype by Paine.
Sarah Jane Mellon (nee Woolgar) as Rosalind in "As You Like It"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing hat and leaning on staff, in outdoor setting. With text: "But, in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind is so admired?" From a daguerreotype by Mayall.
Samuel Phelps as Macbeth in "Macbeth"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing tunic, belt, and cross garters.
Mary Amelia Warner (nee Huddart)
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, arm resting on pillow. Facsimile signature.
Eliza Winstanley as Mrs. Quickly in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in a room, wearing apron, wimple. With text: "Lord, Lord! your worships a wanton! Well heaven forgive you, and all of us, I pray!"
Portrait of Junius Brutus Booth
Image | Portraits of ActorsAlmost half-length. When Booth was about 55.
James Hudson as Rory O'More in "Rory O'More"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, pipe in left hand. With text: "Tut, man you dont know what devils them Irish foxes is. Did you ever hear of the fox of Ballybotherum?" Act III, Scene 2.
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
Benjamin Nottingham Webster as Tartuffe in "Tartuffe"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "The will of heav'n be done in everything."
Mary Amelia Warner (nee Huddart) as Hermoine in "The Winter's Tale"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, hand resting on column.
Isabella Glyn as Constance in "King John"
Image | Portraits of Actorsbid kings come bow to it". Act III, Scene 1.
Isabella Glyn as Isabella and William Hoskins as Lucio in a scene from "Measure for Measure"
Image | Portraits of ActorsLucio wearing striped tunic. With text: "Isab: 'My power! Alas, I doubt___'. Lucio: 'Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt'. Act I, Scene 4.
James Henry Hackett as Rip Van Winkle
Image | Portraits of Actorslong white hair and beard. With text: "Why the little bush has grown a great big tree in the might and there hangs my gun in the branches". Act II, Scene 1.
Peter Richings as Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing tunic with slashed, flowing sleeves and embroidery. With text: "O, then. I see Queen Mab hath been with you."
James Rogers as Sam and William Harries Tilbury as Dr. Botts in a scene from "The Poor Relation"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play, with Sam seated looking at Botts, standing and holding glass and small bottle. With text: Dr. Botts: "Here's your medicine, Baron. (aside) Don't take it!" Sam: "Don't you wish it!"
Portrait of Edwin Booth in 1854
Image | Portraits of ActorsBust. With text: "Edwin Booth in 1854."
McKean Buchanan as Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing tunic, cape over left shoulder. With text: "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them?" Act III, Scene 1. From a daguerreotype by Brinkerhoff & Co.

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