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

Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Eurydice
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "Why Love renounc'd thee ere thou Saw'st the light."
Charlotte Melmoth as Queen Elizabeth in "The Earl of Essex"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Unhappy man! My yielding soul is touch'd."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Agnes in "The Fatal Curiosity"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "O! no! he lives he struggles yet."
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Isabella
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, feathers in hair. With text: "And the most unhappy woman in the world."
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Lady Randolph in "Douglas"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing with hands clasped. With text: "Tis he! tis he himself, It is my Son!" Act III, Scene I.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as the Comic Muse
Image | 1783 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length standing, leaning on pedestal, holding mask in hand.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as King Henry VIII in "Henry VIII"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding can and letters. With text: "See - here are Letters fall'n into my hands."
Thomas King as Sosia in "Amphitryon"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of Actorslantern on ground. With text: "Then thus I make my addresses to hers". Act II, Scene 1.
Samuel Foote as Major Sturgeon in "The Mayor of Garratt"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of Actorswearing huge boots.
Anne Catley (married name Lascelles) as Rachel in "The Jovial Crew"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. With text: "I mean, stark, errant, downright Beggars." Act I, Scene 3.
Richard Wilson as Brainworm in "Love and Revenge"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding a basin. With text: "Your Barber Mr. Smack's Journeyman, at your Service."
John Burton as Heartwell in "The Old Bachelor"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsSmall whole-length portrait, standing in knee-breeches, cane in left hand. With text: "Marry quotha! I hope in heaven I have a greater portion of grace." Act I, Scene 1. Plate for edition of the play.
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Isabella in a scene from "Isabella"
Image | 1782 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in a room with a male character.
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Isabella in "Isabella"
Image | 1795 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Orestes in "Electra"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing armor and helmet with plume. With text: "He is, if I am so."
Elizabeth Farren as Creusa in "Creusa"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, arms extended. With text: "It is, it is Nicander! 'tis my Lord!"
John Moody as Teague in "The Committee"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Upon my soul I believe he's dead."
Samuel Reddish as Alfred in "Alfred"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Music! shield me heaven! Whence should it come."
Charles Lee Lewes as Mercury in "A Hospital for Fools"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding Mercury's staff. With text "Ay, say you that, my pretty one?"
Charles Lee Lewes as Young Wilding in "The Lyar"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text "And I am now, Papillion, perfectly equipped?
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Ximena in "Ximena"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, kneeling, hands clasped. With text: "My duty, Sir, hath spoken, & kneels for Judgement."
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Mariamne in "Mariamne"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Gave command this breast should bleed, where never dwelt a thought disloyal or unkind". Act IV.
Robert Bensley as Busiris in "Busiris, King of Egypt"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing turban and plumes on head, tunic, cape, sword. With text: "Slave! in the front of battle, There thou shalt find me." Act V, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Pope, when Miss Younge, as Artemisa in "The Ambitious Stepmother"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Prince, you pass not. Guards, keep the door."
Elizabeth Pope, when Miss Younge, as Louisa in "Fatal Extravagance"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Poison'd by thee! Thou say'st it but to try me!"
Elizabeth Pope, when Miss Younge, as Mrs. Clerimont in "The Tender Husband"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Look at his youth & Innocence."
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Harriet in "The Funeral"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of Actorsholding open fan. With text: "I can as ingeniously as I should then, acknowledge that I have been in an Error?" Act II. Sc. 2
Anne Catley (married name Lascelles) as Kitty
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing cap and apron, extending tray with service in left hand. With text: "There's your coffee, Captain."
Samuel Foote as Sir Thomas Lofty in "The Patron"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, in profile, stick in right hand. With text: "An uproar! what at the Playhouse?" Act III, Scene 1.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Tragic Muse reciting the monody to the memory of Mr. Garrick
Image | 1783 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in front of a sculpture bust of David Garrick.

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