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Elizabeth Wright Macauley as Belvidera in "Venice Preserved"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, to front, standing, wearing many bracelets and necklace. With text: "But, by the love and loyalty I owe thee."
Frances Maria Kelly as Annette in "The Maid and the Magpie"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: Julienne: "What is that you have dropped?" Annette: "'Tis mine Madam, mine". Act II, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Brunton (Elizabeth Yates) as Violante in "The Wonder"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of Actorsholding a letter in both hands.
Charles Mathews as Somno in "The Sleep Walker"
Image | Portraits of Actorsholding candle and box. With text: "Lie there my sword."
John Fawcett as Caleb Quotem in "The Review"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsBust portrait. Wearing embroidered waistcoat.
Sarah Egerton (nee Fisher) as Meg Merrilies in "Guy Mannering"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of Actorswearing cloth turban, torn shawl, holding tree branch. With text: "If ever the dead come back among the living, I'll be seen in that glen many a night." Act III, Scene 1.
William Charles Macready as Orestes in "The Distrest Mother"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing tunic and cape, with hand on spear at his side. With text: "Have you a foe, and shall I let him live?" Act 4, Scene 1.
Margaret Felicite Anne Carew as Clara in "The Duenna"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing dress with geometrical design. With text: "but Louisa! if you should see your brother." Act I, Scene 5.
William Simmonds Chatterley as Justice Woodcock in "Love in a Village"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing next to chair, leaning on cane. Legs wrapped for gout.
William Farren II as Sir Peter Teazle in "The School for Scandal"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. Standing, holding hat under arm. With text: "Foregad, madam if they considered the sporting with reputations." Act II, Scene 2.
William Henry West Betty as Alexander in "Alexander the Great"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing helmet with plume, cape, sandals and body armor. Engraved for Theatrical Inquisitor. With text: "When each immortal on the billows rode, and I myself appear'd the leading God." Act II, Scene 1.
Thomas Simpson Cooke as Lord William in "The Haunted Tower"
Image | 1813 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing long jacket with decorative trim.
William Pearman as Prince Orlando in "The Cabinet"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of Actorsholding hat. With text: "No more by sorrow chas'd my heart Shall yield to fell despair."
Charles Taylor as Major Galbraith in "Rob Roy Macgregor"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing military uniform, tall boots. With text: "his father was a prick-ear'd cur and fought against the King at Bothwell Brigg."
Richard Jones as Puff in "The Critic"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding book. With text: "A play is not to show occurrences that happen every day, but things just so strange that tho' they never did, they might happen". Act II, Scene 1.
Benjamin Charles Incledon as Captain Macheath in "The Beggar's Opera"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, in fetters, holding goblet in raised right hand. With text: "But now again my spirits sink, I'll raise them high with wine. [Drinks]." Act V, Scene 5.
John Charles Hughes as Fainwou'd in "Raising the Wind"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated at table with dishes, newspaper in lap, legs crossed.
Charles Kemble as Sebastian in "The Renegade"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing armor, resting on hilt of sword held in left hand. With text: "No_whilst this arm_". Act II, Scene 2.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1814 | Portraits of Actorstruncheon in hand.
Sarah Blanche Matthews as Rosina in "Rosina"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing outside, holding wheat. Song: "Whilst with village maids I stray."
William Charles Macready as Orestes in "The Distrest Mother"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding on to cape, leaning into the wind.
Samuel Simmons as Mordecai in "Love a la Mode"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, taking a pinch of snuff.
John Issac as Hawthorn in "Love in a Village"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of Actorsholding gun in left hand. With text: "Song: 'There was a Jolly Miller & c'". Act I, Scene 3.
James William Wallack as Alcibiades in "Timon of Athens"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing tunic and toga with swirl design on the trim. With text: "Must it be so? it must not be: My Lords, I do beseech you, know me."
Daniel Terry as Leon in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1814 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing wearing breeches, doublet, cape with embroidery and beadwork.
Julia Glover as Lady Allworth in "A New Way to Pay Old Debts"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing, wearing dress with decorative trim, hat with plume.
Thomas Denning as Motley in "Three Miles from Paris"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding whip and mail bags. With text: "Oui! certainement, Yes."
Ann Dibdin (nee Hilliar) as Queen Caroline in "The Heart of Midlothian"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of Actorsholding small book in right hand.
John Sinclair as Apollo in "Midas"
Image | 1814 | Portraits of Actorsholding hat.
Richard John Smith (O. Smith) as Orson in "The Iron Chest"
Image | 1820 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing armor, short breeches, robe with fur trim, gloves, boots.
Margaret Agnes Bunn as Bianca in "Fazio"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing, long hair hanging down in front. With text: "Fazio Fazio, it is that morrow."
Susan Knight (nee Smith) as Ella Rosenberg in "Ella Rosenberg"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing long veil. With text: "Yes_Glare upon me!_Let me be haunted_tortur'd!__But you_you should be in Heaven!"
Mary Anne Orger (nee Ivers) as Lorezza in "Jean de Paris"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing gown with bold trim. With text: "Heigho! were you ever in love, Olivier?"
Portrait of John Quick
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.

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