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William Thomas Lewis as Pharnaces in "Cleonice"
Image | 1795 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing armor, cape. With text "Oh! thou most unkind."
Margaret Martyr (Thornton) as Rose in "The Recruiting Officer"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of Actorsholding basket. With text: "Buy chickens, young and tender chickens."
Portrait of Margaret Felicite Anne Carew
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. With music score and organ.
Miss Chapman as Celia in "The School for Lovers"
Image | 1793 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing hat with plume, dress with fringe trim. With text: "Shield me from the World." Act V, Scene I.
John Palmer as Don John in "The Chances"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of Actorsyour starv'd treble will waken the rude watch else."
John Quick as Tony Lumpkin in "She Stoops to Conquer"
Image | 1808 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing embroidered waistcoat.
Portrait of Eleanor Byrne
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing wide robe of pearls about throat, high dark hair.
Louisa Brunton as Cordelia in "King Lear"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing outdoors in front of tents. With text: "O dear Father it is thy business that I go about." Act IV, Scene 4.
Mary Robinson (Darby) as Amanda in "Love's Last Shift"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "I'll not trouble you Sir, yonder's my cousin Wellbred I'll beg his Protection."
Richard Wroughton as Essex in "The Earl of Essex"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing red and gold breeches, doublet, boots, and blue cape. With text: "I've serv'd you, Madam, with the utmost peril, And ever glory'd in th'illustrious danger." Colored print.
Thomas Weston as Costard in "Love's Labour's Lost"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, walking to right, hat in left hand. With text: "I was taken with none Sir, I was taken with a Damosel."
Dorothy Jordan as Euphrosyne in "Comus"
Image | 1814 | Portraits of Actorssatyr in background peeking from behind tree.
Portrait of Nannette Johnston (nee Parker)
Image | 1812 | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, seated on chair, wearing dress with geometric trim.
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) as Sophonisba in "Sophonisba"
Image | 1788 | Portraits of Actorsfeathers and crown on head. Colored print. With text: "Assure him that I drank it, drank it all, with an unalter'd smile." Act V, Scene 7.
Ann Spranger Barry (nee Street) when Mrs. Crawford as Mariamne in "Mariamne"
Image | 1794 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing flowing gown, headdress. With text: "I wish my Innocence." Act I, Scene 6.
William Blanchard as Ralph in "The Maid of the Mill"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of Actorsmill in background.
Robert Bensley as Mahomet in "Mahomet"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of Actorsholding scimitar. With text: "Such be the fate of all who braves our Law." Act V, Scene 5.
Robert Bensley as Oakly in "The Jealous Wife"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing breeches, coat, waistcoat. With text: "Lord this is the strangest Misapprehension! I am quite astonished." Act II, Scene 2.
Dorothy Jordan as Peggy in "The Country Girl"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Why do you marry me then? tis the same thing Bud". Act V, Scene 1.
Michael Kelly as Cymon in "Cymon"
Image | 1795 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding flowers. With text: "Oh, the dear, dear Nosegay and the dear, dear giver of it!"
Mary Stephens Wells (nee Davies) as Anne Lovely in "A Bold Stroke For a Wife"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing bonnet. With text: "I greatly fear the flesh and the weakness thereof _hum."
Portrait of Elizabeth Farren when the Countess of Derby
Image | 1810 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing feathered boa.
Harriet Pye Esten (nee Bennett) as Belvidera in "Venice Preserved"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, kneeling, holding up large veil with hand, outside of building.
Harriet Hill (nee Kelly) as Hypolita in "She Would and She Would Not"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, kneeling, with sword in hand.
Charlotte Goodall as Sir Harry Wildair in "The Constant Couple"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of Actorshand on sword. With text: "Oh, the delights of love and burgundy!" Act V, Scene 1.
Joseph George Holman as Alexander in "The Rival Queens"
Image | 1793 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing armor, cape, sandals. With text: "'Tis false. Great Ammon gave me birth". Act IV, Scene II.
Joseph George Holman as Cyrus in "Cyrus"
Image | 1795 | Portraits of Actorsholding spear in left hand. With text: "Can it be possible?" Act 1, Scene II.
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Cleopatra in "All For Love"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing crown with feathers dagger in right hand. With text: "I'll die, I will not bear it". Act V, Scene 1.
Elizabeth Hartley (nee White) as Elfrida in "Elfrida"
Image | 1796 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing long veil, standing in a garden picking flowers. With text: "'Tis strange my Virgins this sweet child of Summer_____should in its bosom hide such pollution". Act III.
Robert Baddeley as Sir Harry Gubbin in "The Tender Husband"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of Actorsholding tricorne hat and cane.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Clarinda in "The Suspicious Husband"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length standing. Wearing dress with ornaments, headdress with plumes, holding open fan.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsholding up chain with cross. With text: "And here's a Chain of Whitings Eyes for Pearls, A Musell monger would have made a better."
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing in interior setting. Wearing dress with ribbon ornaments and headdress with plumes. With text: "Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray, Can make tomorrow chearful as to-day" Act III, Scene 1.
Portrait of Catherine M. Forde
Image | 1822 | Portraits of Actorsdrapes in background.
Portrait of Ellen Campbell
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing lace shawl over left shoulder.
Samuel Reddish as Young Bevil in "The Conscious Lovers"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated, holding a book. Colored print.
Edward Anthony Rock as Teague in "The Committee"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, outdoors on street, wrapped in blanket. With text: "A poor Irishman, Heaven save me."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Publius in "The Roman Father"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of Actorsholding truncheon.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as King Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1775 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, in swordfighting stance. With text: "of one or both of us the time has come."
Thomas Sheridan as Oedipus in "Oedipus"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. Wearing crown with feathers, robe and tunic with ermine trim. With text: "What mean these exclamations on my Name?"

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