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Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Isabella in "Isabella"
Image | 1800 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding a ring. "It must be so: he's dead. and this ring left by his last breath, to some known faithful friend."
Rosoman Mountain (Wilkinson) as Peggy in "The Gentle Shepherd"
Image | 1809 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, with plaid cloth draped over arm. With text: "Ye meadows, where we often stray'd, Ye banks where we were wont to wander."
Margaret Martyr (Thornton) as Cherry in "The Beaux' Stratagem"
Image | 1799 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing apron, in interior setting. With text: "D'ye call, father!"
William Henry West Betty as Alexander in "Alexander the Great"
Image | 1812 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing tunic, armor, cape, sword, sandals, and crown of leaves. With text: "I should be glad to learn: instruct me, Sir."
William Henry West Betty as Gustavus Vasa in "Gustavus Vasa"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsyet, Anderson. These wars, where man must wound himself in man."
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of Actorsclaymore sword in right hand, raised, another in left hand, point on ground. With text: "My Mother's Voice! I can Protect thee still." Act V, Scene 1.
William Thomas Lewis as the Copper Captain in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1808 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text "Alas. I am a fellow of no reckoning! Nor worth a lady's eye."
Edmund Kean as Bajazet in "Tamerlane"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of Actorsdagger in upraised right hand. With text: "Ye tedious villains, then the work is mine".
Elizabeth Billington (nee Weichsel) as Rosetta in "Love in a Village"
Image | 1802 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing necklace, feathers in headdress.
William Henry West Betty as Orestes in "The Distrest Mother"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of Actorsyour orders are obey'd: The tyrant lies expiring at the alter." Act IV, Scene 1.
William Henry West Betty as Tancred in "Tancred and Sigismunda"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing cape with fur lining, sword at side. With text: "Ha! The prince you mean, is he not Manfred's son?"
William Henry West Betty as Selim in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. In chains, wearing turban. With text: "Curse on this Servile Chain that binds me fast."
William Henry West Betty as Eumenes
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsarms in chains. With text: "Heavens did I hear that rightly!"
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Jacinta in "Lovers' Quarrels"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, walking with clenched fists. With text: "No, but you may carry that, sirrah."
John Philip Kemble as George Barnwell in "George Barnwell"
Image | 1799 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, sitting in his cell, in fetters. With text: "What avails it to think on what I might have been! I now am". Act V, Scene 2.
John Philip Kemble as Cato in "Cato"
Image | 1799 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated, hand on hilt of sword resting on table, open book in left hand. With text: "It must be so__Plato, thou reasons't well_else why this pleasing hope". Act V, Scene 1.
Maria Gibbs as Rosa in "Obi"
Image | 1801 | Portraits of Actorscoat and waistcoat.
Harriet Siddons, when Miss Murray, as Amanthis in "A Child of Nature"
Image | 1801 | Portraits of ActorsThe looks of Heaven! and Heaven adorns her mind."
William Henry West Betty as Osman in "Zara"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing turban with plume, cape with ermine trim, holding dagger. With text: "Revenge, stand firm, and intercept his wishes."
Dorothy Jordan as Peggy in "The Country Girl"
Image | 1799 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, walking, interior scene. With text: "No more, I will then, Bud_This is pure". Act II, Scene 2.
Edmund Kean as Zanga in "The Revenge"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of Actorslooking at dagger in upraised right hand. With text: "But one thing grieves me since my death is near, I leave thee my example how to die".
Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin (nee Richards) as Miss Hoyden
Image | 1811 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, left hand upraised holding overskirt. With text: "Sure nobody was ever used as I am: I know well enough what other girls do."
Maria Rebecca Davison (nee Duncan) as Lady Bell in "Know Your Own Mind"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Pointing to paper held up in left hand. With text: "Ha, ha, ha! so whimsical a character." When Miss Duncan.
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Mrs. Beverley and John Philip Kemble as Mr. Beverley in a scene from "The Gamester"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Mrs. Beverely kneeling and supporting Mr. Beverley, seated on floor. With text: "O! For a few short Moments! to tell you how my Heart bleeds for you."
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Jane Shore in "Jane Shore"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "This is the Door of my Alicia. Blessed Opportunity."
Sarah Smith (married name Bartley) as Imoinda in "Oroonoko"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsscarf draped over arms.
Portrait of Sarah Liston (nee Tyrer)
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding basket and flowers. With text "That little Girl who often cries, sweet lillies of the Valley, come but my pretty violets blue, come buy of little Sally."
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as the Widow Warren in "The Road to Ruin"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing a hat with three large plumes and holding an open fan in right hand. With text: "My scenic faults and follies laid aside, No widow now, nor disapointed bride, My own plain self I once again resume, Sent by the author here, to know his doom."
Harriot Mellon as Anne Lovely in "A Bold Stroke for a Wife"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, arms folded, wearing cap and apron. With text: "I greatly fear the flesh, and the weakness thereof hum."
Maria Rebecca Davison (nee Duncan) as Clarinda in "The Suspicious Husband"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding mask in right hand. When Miss Duncan. With text: "Ha, ha! Your servant, cousin Ranger__Ha, ha, ha!"
Miss Bishop as Rosina in "Rosina"
Image | 1810 | Portraits of Actorswearing straw bonnet with flowers, long gown. With text: "If I have done wrong, Sir, I will put what I have gleaned down again."
William Henry West Betty as Zanga in "The Revenge"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing turban. With text: "Zanga: 'That dagger found will cause her to enquire.'"
Dorothy Jordan as Lydia Languish in "The Rivals"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding book. With text: "What a scene am I now to go through!" Act III, Scene 2.
Dorothy Jordan as Nell in "The Devil to Pay"
Image | 1802 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing bonnet and seated by a spinning wheel.
Dorothy Jordan as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, playing "The Willow" on a lute.
Harriot Mellon as Louisa Dudley in "The West Indian"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "The man of my heart, Madam?"
Lydia Kelly as Ophelia in "Hamlet"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of Actorsbasket of flowers in right hand.
Eliza O'Neill as Isabella
Image | 1814 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding ring. With text: "This ring, this little ring, with necromantic force, is rais'd the ghost of pleasure to my fears."
Lady Mary Catherine Thurlow, when Mary Bolton, as Eliza
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, wearing bonnet tied under chin. With text: "La'as sure as I'm alive, you are the agreeable Gentleman that the drummer told me about, ain't you Sir?"
Portrait of Alexander Rae
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsPortrait, bust.

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