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Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Corinna in "The Confederacy"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Sadlife in "The Double Gallant"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Clarinda in "The Suspicious Husband"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"

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

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Twin portraits Frances Abington as Thalia and and Henry Woodward as Malagrida

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Betty Modish in "The Careless Husband"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Miss Prue in "Love For Love"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) and Frances Abington (nee Barton) in the Characters of the Tragic and Comic Muses

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as the Comic Muse

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Harriet in "The Funeral"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Mrs. Pinchwife in "The Country Wife"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Charlotte in "The Hypocrite"

James William Dodd as Dupeley and Frances Abington as Lady Bab Lardoon in "Maid of the Oaks"

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lappet

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Phillis in "Conscious Lovers"

Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia and Lord Shelburne as Malagrida

Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1772 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length, wearing glove in right hand only.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length. Wearing dress with ornaments and headdress with plumes, holding fan. With text from Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson: "1811_June 16th___met the once celebrated Mrs. Abington__She herself laughed at her snub nose"
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Corinna in "The Confederacy"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing dress with ornaments, headdress with plumes. With text: "O Lord, a letter! is there ever a token in it?" Act 2.d, Scene 1st
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
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 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
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 Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1891 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing hat with feathers, ribbon and wide brim. Lace and ribbon on top of dress.
Twin portraits Frances Abington as Thalia and and Henry Woodward as Malagrida
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsPortraits, busts, in ovals side-by-side.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsholding chain. 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 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
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Miss Prue in "Love For Love"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of Actorshere will you have any?" Act 2, Scene 10
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length standing to left of draped pedestal, holding mask in right hand.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1772 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) and Frances Abington (nee Barton) in the Characters of the Tragic and Comic Muses
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding props.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as the Comic Muse
Image | 1783 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length standing, leaning on pedestal, holding mask in hand.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lady Harriet in "The Funeral"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of Actorsholding open fan. With text: "I can as ingeniously as I should then, acknowledge that I have been in an Error?" Act II. Sc. 2
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Mrs. Pinchwife in "The Country Wife"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing with hands under bib. Wearing ribbon in hair and dress with ribbon ornaments. With text: "Nay, I will go abroad, that's once." Act III, Scene 2.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia
Image | 1834 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length standing to left of draped pedestal, mask in right hand.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Image | Portraits of Actorsholding book in hand. With text: "Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray, Can make tomorrow chearful as to day." Act III, Scene 1.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Hands clasped, wearing dress with rose embellishments and ruffles. With text: "Oh that dear Sparta! Their Women had a Noble Magna Charta."
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1797 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length, looking through curtain.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Aurelia in "The Twin Rivals"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing dress with ornaments and headdress with plumes, holding a fan. With text: "No, no, I'm resolved against a man that disappears all the summer like a Woodcock." Act II, Scene 1.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Charlotte in "The Hypocrite"
Image | 1786 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length standing, facing left to male figure. Wearing dress with ornaments, headdress with plume, holding fan. With text: "How! Two Thousand Pounds!"Act IV, Scene 1.
James William Dodd as Dupeley and Frances Abington as Lady Bab Lardoon in "Maid of the Oaks"
Image | 1794 | Portraits of ActorsScene from "Maid of the Oaks" with Mrs. Abington as Lady Bab.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1772 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing glove only in right hand.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1783 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing headdress with plumes.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | Portraits of ActorsBust.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing necklace of pearls, hair braided.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | 1798 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing large hat with feathers, ribbon and wide brim. Lace and ribbon on top of dress. Curly hair.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing large hat with feathers, ribbon and wide brim. Lace and ribbon on top of dress. Curly hair.
Portrait of Frances Abington (nee Barton)
Image | Portraits of ActorsFull-length. In restoration costume dress with ornaments and tassles.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing hat with plumes, holding a pistol.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Estifania in "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"
Image | 1771 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing green dress and holding pistol. Colored print.
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Lappet
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Line drawing printed in maroon ink.
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
Frances Abington (nee Barton) as Thalia and Lord Shelburne as Malagrida
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsBusts.

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