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Charles Kemble as Mirabel in "The Inconstant"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "I will tell you she's worth five thousand".
Margaret Martyr (Thornton) as Rose in "The Recruiting Officer"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsholding basket. With text: "Buy chickens young and tender."
John Philip Kemble as Orestes in "Distrest Mother"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing armor and boots, holding dagger
Elizabeth Billington (nee Weichsel) as Rosetta in "Love in a Village"
Image | 1809 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing in outdoor setting holding fan.
Robert Bensley as Oakly in "The Jealous Wife"
Image | 1808 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing breeches, coat, waistcoat. With text: "Lord this is the strangest Misapprehension! I am quite astonished." Act II, Scene 2.
Sarah Smith (married name Bartley) as Isabella in "Isabella"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing a long veil extending down in back. With text: "This ring was the first present of my love."
Dorothy Jordan as Peggy in a scene from "The Country Girl"
Image | 1808 | Portraits of Actorsman standing in doorway back of her. With text: Moody: "What writing more Letters." Peggy: "O Lord! Bud why fright me so."
Dorothy Jordan as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in a room reading a book, wearing embroidered veil and shawl, and a glove on one hand. With text: "O blest with temper or whose undouded ray, can make to morrow chearfull as to day". Act III, Scene 1.
Harriet Siddons (nee Murray) as Lady Restless in "All in the Wrong"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated at a table, holding miniature.
Ann Brunton Merry as Calista in "The Fair Pentitent"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing veil over hair and necklace with cross pendant. With text: "How didst thou dare to think that I would live a slave to base desires, and brutal pleasures, to be a wretched wanton for thy leisure."
Harriett Litchfield (nee Hay) as Imoinda in "Oroonoko"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text "There's something in that name, that voice, that face, Oh if I know myself I cannot be mistaken." Act II Scene 3.
William Wyatt Dimond as Don Felix in "The Wonder"
Image | 1809 | Portraits of Actorsholding hat. With text: "Either my eye deceived me, or I saw a man within." Act IV
Maria Theresa Kemble (nee DeCamp) as Polly in "The Beggar's Opera"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in a room. With text: "No pow'r on earth can e'er divide the knot that sacred love hath ty'd". Act II.
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Lady Wishfort in "The Way of the World"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of Actorsand your wits allways rally your best friends."
Louisa Brunton as Belinda in "The Provoked Wife"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing in forest, wearing hat and holding mask. With text: "Women might have their frolicks you see whatever they cost them." Act IV, Scene 5
Anna Selina Storace as Euphrosyne in "Comus"
Image | 1809 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding cup, wearing crown of leaves. With text: "But the Nymph disdains to pine, Who bathes the Wound in rosy Wine."
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."
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 Captain Bobadil in "Every Man In His Humour"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsholding sword point upwards over right shoulder. With text: "Oh, Lord sir! by St. George, I was the first man that enter'd the breach", Act I, Scene 4.
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Euphrasia in "The Grecian Daughter"
Image | 1808 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, dagger in upraised hand. With text: "In a dear Father's cause, a Woman's vengeance towers above her Sex."
William Thomas Lewis as the Copper Captain in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding large hat. With text "Alas I am a fellow of no reckoning. Nor worth a Lady's eye."
Harriett Litchfield (nee Hay) as Belvidera in "Venice Preserved"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing cloak. With text "My husband bloody, and his friend too! Murder! Who has done this? Speak to me. On these poor trembling knees I beg it."
Harriett Litchfield (nee Hay) as Calista in "The Fair Penitent"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "How didst thou dare to think that I would live a slave to base desires, and bridal pleasures to be a wretched wanton for thy leisure." Act IV, Scene 1.
Harriett Litchfield (nee Hay) as Zara in "The Mourning Bride"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, in chains. With text "When I see these bonds, I look with loathing on myself." Act I.

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