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William Dowton as Old Mirabel and Charles Kemble as Young Mirabel in a scene from "The Inconstant"

Joseph Shepherd Munden as Smooth in a scene from "Wild Oats"

Harriett Litchfield (nee Hay) as Zaphira and Master Betty as Selim in a scene from "Barbarossa"

William Thomas Lewis as Vapid and John Quick as Lord Scratch in a scene from "The Dramatist"

Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Dame Dunckley, John Phillip Kemble as Penruddock, and Richard Suett as Weazel in a scene from "The Wheel of Fortune"

Joseph Shepherd Munden as Colonel Oldboy in "Lionel and Clarissa"

Elizabeth Pope (nee Younge) as Monimia, Miss Leserve as Florella and Alexander Pope as Castalio in a scene from "The Orphan"

Richard Henry Barrymore as The Father and Charles Kemble as Durimel in a scene from "The Point of Honor"

Ann Brunton Merry as Horatia and Alexander Pope as Publius in a scene from "The Roman Father"

Ann Brunton Merry as Rosaria, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Don Manuel, and Sarah Smith (Bartley) as Hypolita in a scene from "She Would and She Would Not"

John Palmer as Mahomet in "Mahomet"

John Fawcett as Pedrillo and Anna Selina Storace as Lorenza in a scene from "Castle of Andalusia"

William Brereton as Arnold and Elizabeth Kemble (Whitlock) as Mariana in a scene from "Edward the Black Prince"

Maria Gibbs as Emily Worthington, Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Miss Lucretia Mactab, and Charles Murray as Lt. Worthington in a scene from "The Poor Gentleman"

Charlotte Goodall as Floranthe and John Phillip Kemble as Octavian in a scene from "The Mountaineers"

George Frederick Cooke as Falstaff in a scene from "Henry IV, Part II"

William Thomas Lewis as Wellborn, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Marrall, and Catherine M. St. Ledger (nee Williams) as Lady Allworth in a scene from "A New Way to Pay Old Debts"

Ann Brunton Merry as Sophia in a scene from "The Road to Ruin"

John Bannister as Wilfred in a scene from "The Iron Chest"

Elizabeth Pope (nee Younge) as Lady Anne, Miss Wallis as Joanna and Alexander Pope as Mordent in "The Deserted Daughter"

Elizabeth Pope (nee Younge) as Lady Amaranth, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Smooth, and Mrs. Wells as Jane in a scene from "Wild Oats"

Julia Glover as Violante and John Phillip Kemble as Felix in a scene from "The Wonder"

Dorothy Jordan as Sabina Rosny and Richard Wroughton as Lord Sensitive in a scene from "First Love"

John Fawcett as Dr. Pangloss and John Palmer as Dick Dowlas in a scene from "The Heir at Law"

William Farren as Sir Charles Easy, Elizabeth Pope (Younge) as Lady Easy, and Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Edging in a scene from "The Careless Husband"

William Thomas Lewis as Tangent and Alexander Pope as Captain Falkener in a scene from "The Way to Get Married"

Portrait of Susannah Centlivre (nee Freeman)

Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth"

Richard Wroughton as Moody and Dorothy Jordan as Peggy in a scene from "The Country Girl"

Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Jane Shore

Harriet Siddons (nee Murray) as Lady Elizabeth Gray and William Henry West Betty as Warwick in a scene from "The Earl of Warwick"

Sarah Smith (married name Bartley) as Portia in a scene from "The Merchant of Venice"

Ann Brunton Merry as Lady Jane Grey in a scene from "Lady Jane Grey"

Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon, Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon, and Mr. Thompson as Nabson in a scene from "Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are"

Robert Bensley as Eustache and Henry Erskine Johnston as the Old Man in a scene from "The Surrender of Calais"

Alexander Pope as Frederick, William Henry Murray as Wildenhaim, and Nannette Johnston (nee Parker) as Amelia Wildenhaim in a scene from "Lovers' Vows"

Thomas Ryder as Sir John Brute, Mrs. Pope as Lady Brute and Mary Stephens Wells (nee Davies) as Belinda in a scene from "The Provoked Wife"

Elizabeth Pope as The Countess and Mr. Bloomfield as Theodore in a scene from "The Count of Narbonne"

Dorothy Jordan as Mrs. Sullen and John Bannister as Scrub in a scene from "The Beaux' Stratagem"

William Dowton as Old Mirabel and Charles Kemble as Young Mirabel in a scene from "The Inconstant"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene with several figures. With text: "Oriana- 'I cannot! For I must be up and go to church.' Scene III.
Joseph Shepherd Munden as Smooth in a scene from "Wild Oats"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play, kneeling, with two women characters. With text: Lady Amaranth - "Ah, thou sly and deceitful hypocrite."
Harriett Litchfield (nee Hay) as Zaphira and Master Betty as Selim in a scene from "Barbarossa"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with two characters embracing. With text: Zaphira -- "My virtuous son! How shall I ere repair thy virtuous love?" Act V, Scene III.
William Thomas Lewis as Vapid and John Quick as Lord Scratch in a scene from "The Dramatist"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with an unidentified female character. With text: Vapid - "Prologue or epilogue! I'm your man. I'll write you both."
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Dame Dunckley, John Phillip Kemble as Penruddock, and Richard Suett as Weazel in a scene from "The Wheel of Fortune"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsThree characters in an outdoor scene. With text: Weazel -- "With your leave, I want a few words with you." Act 1, Scene 1.
Joseph Shepherd Munden as Colonel Oldboy in "Lionel and Clarissa"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play, in a room with three other characters. With text: Oldboy -- "She's gone, by the lord!"
Elizabeth Pope (nee Younge) as Monimia, Miss Leserve as Florella and Alexander Pope as Castalio in a scene from "The Orphan"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsScene, Castalio's hand to his face. With text: Monimia -- "What? Speak? Art thou not well, Castalio?"
Richard Henry Barrymore as The Father and Charles Kemble as Durimel in a scene from "The Point of Honor"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsWhole length. Interior scene. With Text: Durimel-- "My Father! In such a moment! Kind heaven I thank thee." Act II, Scene II.
Ann Brunton Merry as Horatia and Alexander Pope as Publius in a scene from "The Roman Father"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene with several other figures. With text: Horatia: "Stand off. I am not mad. Nay draw thy sword. I do defy thee, Murderer."
Ann Brunton Merry as Horatia and Alexander Pope as Publius in a scene from "The Roman Father"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Horatia kneeling in front of Publius. With text: Horatia: "I only ask thee not to plunge thy sword into the breast thou lov'st."
Ann Brunton Merry as Rosaria, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Don Manuel, and Sarah Smith (Bartley) as Hypolita in a scene from "She Would and She Would Not"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Don Manuel seated and the two women gathered around him. With text: Don Manuel: "Oh, The malicious jade has a mind to destroy me all at once."
John Palmer as Mahomet in "Mahomet"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole length, holding book. With text: Mahomet -- "Thou Alcoran! Hast won more battles."
John Fawcett as Pedrillo and Anna Selina Storace as Lorenza in a scene from "Castle of Andalusia"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Pedrillo leaning backward on right knee, Lorenza kneeling. With text: "Oh you most beautiful Goddess." Act II, Scene 1.
William Brereton as Arnold and Elizabeth Kemble (Whitlock) as Mariana in a scene from "Edward the Black Prince"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsMariana on the ground. With Text: "Mariana -- 'Loss of reason is now but loss of torment -- cruel Arnold'".
Maria Gibbs as Emily Worthington, Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Miss Lucretia Mactab, and Charles Murray as Lt. Worthington in a scene from "The Poor Gentleman"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play, interior setting. With text: "Miss L. Mac Tab: 'I'll never speak to that beastly quack again, who left me in a ditch.'" Act V, Scene 2.
Charlotte Goodall as Floranthe and John Phillip Kemble as Octavian in a scene from "The Mountaineers"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Octavian on ground, Floranthe kneeling with hands on his shoulders. With text: "Alas, Octavian revive of thou wilt kill me_'tis Floranthe thy own Floranthe". Act III, Scene III.
George Frederick Cooke as Falstaff in a scene from "Henry IV, Part II"
Image | Portraits of Actorsat the suit of Mrs. Quickly." Act I, Scene 3.
William Thomas Lewis as Wellborn, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Marrall, and Catherine M. St. Ledger (nee Williams) as Lady Allworth in a scene from "A New Way to Pay Old Debts"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsScene from play. With text: Wellborn: "How! Thunderstruck!"
Ann Brunton Merry as Sophia in a scene from "The Road to Ruin"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsScene with another female figure, in a room with mantle and picture in background. With text: Sophia: "I would not give you this tiny bit of paper. No not for a diamond as big as, as big as the whole world."
John Bannister as Wilfred in a scene from "The Iron Chest"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Interior scene with another male figure and a boy. With text: Wilf. -- "Preserve it, you are judge. My innocence, my life rests on it." Scene last.
Elizabeth Pope (nee Younge) as Lady Anne, Miss Wallis as Joanna and Alexander Pope as Mordent in "The Deserted Daughter"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Lady Anne and Joanna standing, Mordent seated with handkerchief to his face. With text: Lady Anne -- "Forgive this rude tumult of affection."
Elizabeth Pope (nee Younge) as Lady Amaranth, Joseph Shepherd Munden as Smooth, and Mrs. Wells as Jane in a scene from "Wild Oats"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Smooth kneeling, two women standing. With text: Lady Amaranth - "Ah! Thou sly and deceitful hypocrite."
Julia Glover as Violante and John Phillip Kemble as Felix in a scene from "The Wonder"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsScene from play, interior. With text: "Don Felix: "Pray let me go Madam. Consider the gentleman wants you at the window'". Act II, Scene 1.
Dorothy Jordan as Sabina Rosny and Richard Wroughton as Lord Sensitive in a scene from "First Love"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Sabina standing, her arms around Lord Sensitive, seated at right. With text: Sabina: "My Lord! My husband!" Act V, Scene 1.
John Fawcett as Dr. Pangloss and John Palmer as Dick Dowlas in a scene from "The Heir at Law"
Image | Portraits of ActorsInterior scene with two characters standing. With text: Dick Dowlas- "Respect Him for he's as LLD and moreover as A double S" Act II, Scene 2.
William Farren as Sir Charles Easy, Elizabeth Pope (Younge) as Lady Easy, and Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as Edging in a scene from "The Careless Husband"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Sir Charles Easy seated and leaning back on chair with Lady Easy standing over him. With text: Lady Easy: "This may prevent it." Act V, Scene 5.
William Thomas Lewis as Tangent and Alexander Pope as Captain Falkener in a scene from "The Way to Get Married"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with an unidentified actress playing Julia. With text: Captain Falkener -- "My Julia! Oh! Give her to my arms."
Portrait of Susannah Centlivre (nee Freeman)
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length.
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth"
Image | 1830 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding a letter.
Richard Wroughton as Moody and Dorothy Jordan as Peggy in a scene from "The Country Girl"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Peggy seated at a table writing a letter, Moody standing at her left, looking down at her. With text: Moody: "Come, take the pen and make an end of the letter, just as you intended". Act V, Scene 1.
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Jane Shore
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated on the ground in courtyard, leaning against wall. With text: "Why should I wander, stray further on? For I can die ev'n here."
Harriet Siddons (nee Murray) as Lady Elizabeth Gray and William Henry West Betty as Warwick in a scene from "The Earl of Warwick"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Lady Gray kneeling and Warwick with his arm around her. With text: "And when thou art gone who shall defend thy poor Elizabeth."
Sarah Smith (married name Bartley) as Portia in a scene from "The Merchant of Venice"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsScene with several other characters. With text: Bassanio-- "Thy plainess moves me more than eloquence."
Ann Brunton Merry as Lady Jane Grey in a scene from "Lady Jane Grey"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of ActorsKneeling with book, with male figure in background. With text: Attendant: "Softly, my Lord! For yet behold she kneels."
Joseph Shepherd Munden as Sir William Dorrillon, Tryphosa Jane Wallis as Miss Dorrillon, and Mr. Thompson as Nabson in a scene from "Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are"
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Sir William holding on to the arm of Miss Dorillon. With text: Sir William: "There is your prisoner."
Robert Bensley as Eustache and Henry Erskine Johnston as the Old Man in a scene from "The Surrender of Calais"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Outdoor scene. Eustache wearing hat, tunic and cape
Alexander Pope as Frederick, William Henry Murray as Wildenhaim, and Nannette Johnston (nee Parker) as Amelia Wildenhaim in a scene from "Lovers' Vows"
Image | 1816 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with two other characters. With text: "Frederick: 'Ha! Mother! Father.'"
Thomas Ryder as Sir John Brute, Mrs. Pope as Lady Brute and Mary Stephens Wells (nee Davies) as Belinda in a scene from "The Provoked Wife"
Image | 1817 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with the three characters seated in a room, Sir John smoking a pipe. With text: "Bel.- 'Yes I do especially if he smoked tobacco.'"
Elizabeth Pope as The Countess and Mr. Bloomfield as Theodore in a scene from "The Count of Narbonne"
Image | 1807 | Portraits of Actorscountess wearing veil and carrying lighted candle.
Dorothy Jordan as Mrs. Sullen and John Bannister as Scrub in a scene from "The Beaux' Stratagem"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Archer standing with drawn sword, threatening to attack Scrub, kneeling at his feet, while Mrs. Sullen clings to his right arm. With text: "O pray Sir spare all I have and take my life". Act V, Scene 3. Archer is played by Mr. Dwyer.

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