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Portrait of William Henry West Betty at 13
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing low ruffled collar. Wide circular frame with horns at top, tablet and decorations at bottom. "The Young Roscius, Aged 13." Motto: "Oh! Thou Goddess, thou divine nature! How thyself thou blazons't in this most wonderful and matchless Youth."
William Henry West Betty as Achmet in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding sword in right hand upraised. With text: "Now! Barbarossa, let my arm meet thine. 'Tis all I ask of Heaven."
William Henry West Betty as Selim in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Colored print. With text: "In the Character of Selim on his first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre on Sat. Dec. 1, 1804. If thou dar'st, Now view me..Hear me, Tyrant! While with voice more terrible than Thunder, I proclaim that he who aim'd the Dagger at thy Heart is Selim! Vide Barbarossa Act 4, Scene 1."
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | Portraits of Actorsdrawing claymore sword from scabbard.
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing hat with high, thick plume.
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."
John Edwin as Zekiel Homespun
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, left hand clenched and extended.
Joseph Burke as Teddy O'Rourke
Image | 1830 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Dancing on a barrel, fiddling.
William Henry West Betty as Warwick and Harriet Siddons (nee Murray) as Lady Gray in a scene from "The Earl of Warwick"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. Warwick seated leaning on left arm to right, Lady Gray to left bending over him. With text: "Warwick: 'Wilt thou indeed? Then I shall die in peace.' Eliz: 'Yet thou may'st live.'"
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas and Harriet Litchfield (nee Hay) as Lady Randolph in a scene from "Douglas"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsLady Randolph supporting the wounded Young Norval Douglas. With text: "Douglas: 'Do not despair, I feel a little faintness! I hope it will not last.'" Act V, Scene 1.
Portrait of William Henry West Betty
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing low collar with ruffled edge. With text: "The Young Roscius."
Portrait of William Henry West Betty
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing low, ruffled collar. Motto: "Young Roscius, that justly celebrated theatrical star of the first magnitude".
Portrait of William Henry West Betty
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing low, ruffled collar. In oval medallion irradiated. Clipped from frontispiece to Jackson's Strictures Upon the Merits of Young Roscius.
William Henry West Betty as Selim in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. With text: "Master Betty, Surnamed Young Roscius. In the Character of Selim on his first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre on Sat. Dec. 1, 1804. If thou dar'st, Now view me..Hear me, Tyrant! While with voice more terrible than Thunder, I proclaim that he who aim'd the Dagger at thy Heart is Selim! Vide Barbarossa Act 4, Scene 1."
William Henry West Betty as Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. With long hair.
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of Actorsclaymore sword in right hand raised over head, in left hand point on ground. With text: "My Mother's voice! I can protect thee still." Act V, Scene 1.
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsLike Douglas conquor, or like Douglas die." Act V, Scene 1
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Isabella and Henry Siddons as her child in a scene from "Isabella"
Image | 1783 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Isabella bending forward, holding her son by the hand. With text: "My bury'd husband rises in the face of my dear boy & chides me for my stay: Canst thou forgive me child?"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Medea in "Medea"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, right arm upraised, her two children standing beside her.
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.
Portrait of Joseph Burke as a child
Image | Portraits of ActorsBust. In broad white collar. Mounted tissue.
Portrait of Kate Josephine Bateman and Ellen Douglas Bateman
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Leaning on pedestals.
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.'"
William Henry West Betty as Hamlet before bust of Shakespeare
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing on steps before bust of Shakespeare. After picture by J. Northcote.
William Henry West Betty as Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing high, ruffled collar and pendant on ribbon around neck. Text in German: "Betty genannt der jung Roscius"
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing cape, hat with plume.
Portrait of William Henry West Betty
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing high ruffled collar. Used in Lady's Magazine.
William Henry West Betty as Frederick in "Lovers' Vows"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length, profile.
William Henry West Betty as Frederick in "Lovers' Vows"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of Actorswoman seated at rear. With text: "This will do for my breakfast and dinner, and at night I shall reach Home."
Sarah Siddons (nee Kemble) as Isabella and Henry Siddons as her child in a scene from "Isabella"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, Isabella standing, holding her son's hand.
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing swordsman's stance, left arm rasied, right arm with sword extended. Wearing hat with plume, armor, cape, sandals. Titles in German. With text: "Villian no more! Draw and defend thy life." Act IV, Scene 2.
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 Tancred in "Tancred and Sigismunda"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing hat with plume, breeches, cape, wide belt.
Portrait of William Henry West Betty at 13
Image | 1804 | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing low ruffled collar, rosy cheeks. Colored print. Symbols and inscriptions below. With text: '"O, thou goddess. Thou divine Nature! how thyself thou blazon'st!" In this most wonderful & matchless Youth!'
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 Flash in "Miss in Her Teens"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhat have you to say to that, Sir?"
William Henry West Betty as Eumenes
Image | 1806 | Portraits of Actorsarms in chains. With text: "Heavens did I hear that rightly!"
William Henry West Betty as Norval Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1805 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Blue tartan cloth across left shoulder. Colored print. With text: "Has he indeed then let you false Glenalvon beware of me."
Portrait of Clara Fisher when a child actress
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, seated, hands crossed. With text: "The Lilliputian performer who acquired great celebrity at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1818."

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