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William Thomas Lewis as Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorsbow in right hand, shield in left arm, drapery and balustrade in background. With text "My name in Norval."
Portrait of Margaret Agnes Bunn when Miss Somerville
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing light dress with short sleeves, necklace.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Cleopatra in "All For Love"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing, supported by two women. With text: "I'll die, I will not bear it, you may hold me."
David Garrick as Lusignan and Miss Younge (Elizabeth Pope) as Zara in a scene from "Zara"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Zara standing before Lusignan, two men standing behind his chair. With text: "Lus: 'Yes_Yes_'tis she! this little Cross'". Act II, Scene 3.
Samuel Foote as Mrs. Cole in "The Minor"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Foote dressed in women's attire seated between two men. With text: "My thoughts are fix'd upon a better place. What, I suppose Mr. Loader, you will be for your old friend the black-eyed Girl." Act I.
Charles Dubellamy as Young Meadows and Anne Brown Cargill as Rosetta in a scene from "Love in a Village"
Image | 1784 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. Standing in forest. Scene from Act I, Scene 3.
Thomas King as Perez in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated at table with candle. With text: "Never return to mine own House again. We're lodged here in the miserablest dog-hole. The Inhabitants we have are two starved Rats". Act III, Scene 1.
Portrait of Margaret Agnes Bunn when Miss Somerville
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing light dress with short sleeves, necklace, earrings.
Mrs. Gardiner (nee Cheney) as Lady Plyant and John Palmer as Careless in a scene from "The Double Dealer"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsScene from play with Lady Plyant looking at Careless, kneeling at right. With text: "Careless: 'Can you be so cruel. L. Ply: 'Arise I beseech you'". Act IV, Scene 2.
David Garrick as Demetrius in a scene from "The Brothers"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsScene depicting Demetrius standing with Erixene, dropping dagger from right hand. With text: "Necessity, for Gods themselves too strong, is weaker than thy Charms". Act V, Scene 3.
John Dunstall as Dominick in "The Spanish Fryar"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding an open box, cane under right arm. "The Spanish Fryer." With text: "They are the spoils of the wicked & the Church, endows you with 'em." Act IV, Scene 1.
John Henderson as Count Biron in a scene from "Isabella"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorsinterior, tapestries in background. With text: "O! come again: thy Biron summons thee to Life and Love." Act IV, Scene 2.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Betty Modish in "The Careless Husband"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorswearing dress with ornaments, large headdress with plumes, holding fan in left hand, gloves in right. With text: "How handsomely does he reproach me! But I can't bear that he should think I know it." Act V, Sc. VI
Elizabeth Billington (nee Weichsel) as Mandane in "Artaxerxes"
Image | 1788 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing large headdress with plumes. With text: "Let not rage, thy Bosom firing, Pity's softer claim remove." Act III, Scene 2.
John Moody as Teague and William Parsons as Obadiah in a scene from "The Committee"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play, in a room with Teague supporting Obadiah. With text: Obad: "Good Mr. Teague give me some more sack."
James Aickin as Phocion in "The Grecian Daughter"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing in interior setting. Wearing breeches and coat with flowing sleeves lined with fur. With text: "Ha!__the gaping tomb Invites my steps__ now be propitious Heaven." Act IV, Scene 2.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Sadlife in "The Double Gallant"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing with Atall in interior setting. With text: "Olud! I'm going home this minute: And if you shou'd offer to dog my Chair, I protest I_was ever such usage_Lord_sure! oh_follow me down then." Act II, Sc 2
Priscilla Kemble (nee Hopkins) as Miss Peggy in "The Country Wife"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorsportraits on wall in background. With text: "Now wrap it up just like t'other_so_". Act IV, Scene 2.
John Palmer as Bajazet and Priscilla H. Kemble as Selima in a scene from "Tamerlane"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Bajazet wielding a knife. With text: "Now, now thou Traitress."
Robert Bensley as Mahomet in "Mahomet"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actors3 men in background. With text: "Ma: Thou Alcoran! hast won more Battles for me, than thrice my feeble Numbers had atchiev'd, without the succour of thy sacred impulse." Act II, Scene 2.
John Henderson as Horatius in a scene from "The Roman Father"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Horatius, in armor, standing, hands clasped, facing Valerius, Valeria in background. With text: "How could I doubt his virtue?___Mighty Gods! This is true glory, to preserve his Country." Act IV, Scene 1.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Phillis in "Conscious Lovers"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing in interior with male figure in background. With text: "Oh here is my Young Mistress. Go ye Liquorish Fool" Act III, Scene 4
James Aickin as Horatio in "The Fair Penitent"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsholding sheet of paper. With text: "Hold, let me take a moments' Thought." Act I, Scene 1.
William Brereton as George Barnwell in "George Barnwell"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsmask, hat, and dagger on ground. With text: "Let Heaven from its high throne, in Justice or in Mercy now look down on that dear Murthered Saint & me the Murtherer." Act III
Henry Woodward as Marplot in "The Busy Body"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, in street. With text: "There he goes."

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