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William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Alexander in "The Rival Queens"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, dressed in armor and helmet.
West Diggs (Digges) as Sir John Brute in "The Provoked Wife"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding pipe in upraised right hand. With text: "Oons, get you gone up stairs." Act III, Scene 1.
Samuel Foote as Zachary Fungus in "The Commissary"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, right hand and arm extended, left hand on hip. With text: "When I consider the vast Importance." Act 1.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Olivia in "Twelfth Night"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing long veil. With text: "Look you, Sir, such a one I wear." Act I, Scene 9
Thomas King as Captain Bobadil in "Every Man in His Humour"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, sword in outstretched right hand. With text: "Challenge twenty more, kill them". Act IV, Scene 2.
Jane Lessingham as Flora
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text "-- and are like to live, fretting one another like silk and worsted wove together, till we quite wear out."
Elizabeth Pope, when Miss Younge, as Ethelinda in "The Royal Convert"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "I disdain those Gods."
Samuel Reddish as Beverley in "The Gamester"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated at table with bottles and glasses. With text: "What had I to do with play?"
Anne Oldfield as Rosamond in "Rosamond"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "The Queen, th' offended Queen, I see!"
Richard Yates as Hobbinol in "The Capricious Lovers"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, cane hanging from left wrist. With text: "Tho' my Features I'm told, Are grown wrinkled & old."
John Edwin as Tom Thumb in "Tom Thumb"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of Actorsholding baton in right hand. At age 12. With text: "I ask not Kingdoms, I can conquer those." Act I, Scene 3.

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William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Alexander in "The Rival Queens"

West Diggs (Digges) as Sir John Brute in "The Provoked Wife"

Samuel Foote as Zachary Fungus in "The Commissary"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Olivia in "Twelfth Night"

Thomas King as Captain Bobadil in "Every Man in His Humour"

Jane Lessingham as Flora

Elizabeth Pope, when Miss Younge, as Ethelinda in "The Royal Convert"

Samuel Reddish as Beverley in "The Gamester"

Anne Oldfield as Rosamond in "Rosamond"

Richard Yates as Hobbinol in "The Capricious Lovers"

John Edwin as Tom Thumb in "Tom Thumb"

William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Alexander in "The Rival Queens"

West Diggs (Digges) as Sir John Brute in "The Provoked Wife"

Samuel Foote as Zachary Fungus in "The Commissary"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Olivia in "Twelfth Night"

Thomas King as Captain Bobadil in "Every Man in His Humour"

Jane Lessingham as Flora

Elizabeth Pope, when Miss Younge, as Ethelinda in "The Royal Convert"

Samuel Reddish as Beverley in "The Gamester"

Anne Oldfield as Rosamond in "Rosamond"

Richard Yates as Hobbinol in "The Capricious Lovers"

John Edwin as Tom Thumb in "Tom Thumb"