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

Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Elvira in "Elvira"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, hair dressed high with feathers and long veil. With text: "Were those of Duty, Sr he is my Husband". Act V, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Jane Shore in "Jane Shore"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "My good Neighbour! your good wishes still pursue my hapless fortune". Act I, Scene 2.
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Lady Jane Grey in "Lady Jane Grey"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsbook propped on table at left.
Thomas Hull as King Charles in "King Charles I"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing hat with feathers, wide lace collar, breeches and doublet with slashes. With text: "Deny'd to speak! why have I lived to this?" Act IV.
Thomas Hull as Voltore in "Volpone"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorspointing to object under left arm. With text: "I could as well give health to you as to this Plate". Act III, Scene 3.
George Davis Harley as Maskwell in "The Double Dealer"
Image | 1795 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding tricorne hat. With text: "Well this double dealing is a jewel. Here he comes now for me". Act III, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Heard as Celia in "The School for Lovers"
Image | 1793 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, hands clasped. With text: "Shield me from the World". Act V, Scene 1.
Portrait of Frances Maria Kelly
Image | 1821 | Portraits of Actorsdrapery in background.
John Philip Kemble as Bajazet in "Tamerlane"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, in manacles. With text: "Has stript me of the train and pomp of greatness, yet still my soul is free". Act II, Scene 2.
Portrait of Elizabeth Brunton (Elizabeth Yates)
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing beaded necklace, earrings.
Portrait of Elizabeth Yates (nee Brunton)
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Hair tied up, wearing flowing veil.
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Elvira in "The Spanish Fryar"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding up veil. With text: "but however I will not stand with you for a sample."
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Phaedra in "Phaedra & Hippolitus"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorsholding sword in hand. With text: "Now, all ye kindred Gods, look down and see How I'll revenge you, and myself on Phaedra." Act III, Scene 4.
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Sophonisba in "Sophonisba"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of Actorsfeathers and crown on head. With text: "Assure him that I drank it, drank it all, With an unalter'd Smile." Act V, Scene 7.
John Palmer as Don Carlos in "Ximena"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing breeches with slashes, jockey boots, holding hat. With text: "My injur'd sword shall prove this arm ne'er drew it but in right of honor."
Jane Pope as Corinna in "The Confederacy"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorsdo you know that Flippantra?"
Jane Pope as Rosetta in "The Foundling"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding a letter. With text: "Is it not very polite, Colonel?"
Samuel Reddish as Edgar in "King Lear"
Image | 1775 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, brandishing a club. With text: "There could I have him now, & there, & here again, and there."
Mary Ann Powell as Boadicea in "Boadicea"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing crown, holding staff. With text: "Not the wealth which loads the palaces of sumptuous Rome shal bribe my fury."
Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Palmira in "Mahomet the Impostor"
Image | 1795 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing turban with feather. With text: "I tremble Zaphna!"
Portrait of Louisa Chatterley (nee Simeon) in character
Image | 1822 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing bodice with beads and tassels. With text:
Ann Brunton Merry as Calista in "The Fair Penitent"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, long hair hanging down in front from right shoulder. With text: "And you...glittering heav'nly hosts of Stars, Hide your fair heads in Clouds, or I shall blast you."
Ann Brunton Merry as Horatia in "The Roman Father"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding and pointing to piece of cloth. With text: "Yes, thou dear pledge, design'd for happier hours."
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Mrs. Pinchwife in "The Country Wife"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing with hands under bib. Wearing ribbon in hair and dress with ribbon ornaments. With text: "Nay, I will go abroad, that's once." Act III, Scene 2.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing dress with ornaments and headdress with plumes, holding a fan. With text: "No, no, I'm resolved against a man that disappears all the summer like a Woodcock." Act II, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Leak as Peggy in "The Gentle Shepherd"
Image | 1796 | Portraits of Actorstub of clothes on ground at left.
Jane Lessingham as Oriana in "The Inconstant"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing petticoats with decorative trim. With text: "I am proud of my power and am resolved to use it."
William Thomas Lewis as the Copper Captain in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing military uniform. With text: "Alas. I am a fellow of no reckoning! Nor worth a lady's eye."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Phocyas in "The Siege of Damascus"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing long cape. With text: "Now to the field to gain the glorious prize."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Archer in "The Beaux' Stratagem"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "My Lady How d'ye, the last Mistress I serv'd call'd me up one Morning & told me, Martin, go to my Lady all night, with my humble Service."
Anne Catley (married name Lascelles) as Rachel in "The Jovial Crew"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing skirt with multiple layers, bustle. With text: "I mean, stark, errant, downright Beggars." Act I, Scene 3.
John Fawcett as Jack Nightshade in "The Choleric Man"
Image | 1793 | Portraits of Actorswhip under arm. With text: "Humph! in all twenty and five Guineas___what was you saying last brother?"
Portrait of Fanny Elizabeth Fitzwilliam when Miss Copeland
Image | 1820 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, scarf looped around neck.
John Edwin as Autolycus in "The Winter's Tale"
Image | 1785 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. Outdoors, wearing tattered clothing, holding up a purse in left hand.
William Wyatt Dimond as Philaster in "Philaster"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of Actorsholding sword in right hand. With text: "Dear Arethusa, do but take this sword, and search how temperate a heart I have." Act IV, Scene 2.
Dorothy Jordan as Phaedra in "Amphitryon"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding vase in both hands. With text: "This shall be my Sweetheart in your Place". Act IV.
Elizabeth Billington (nee Weichsel) as Rosetta in "Love in a Village"
Image | 1790 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing in outdoor setting holding fan.
John Moody as Commodore Flip in "The Fair Quaker of Deal"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "This lady is dispos'd of, and her inclinations are moor'd to my affections."
Portrait of Lydia Ellen Merry
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing small headdress/tiara.
James Middleton as Eumenes in "Merope"
Image | 1795 | Portraits of Actorsin chains. With text: "Heavens did I hear that rightly!"

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