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Lotta Crabtree as La Cigale in "La Cigale" on sheet music cover

Anna Maria Crouch (nee Phillips) as Pythia in "Creusa"

Marie Caroline Cubitt as the Gypsy Girl in "Guy Mannering"

Peter C. Cunningham as Bailie Nicol Jarvie

Elizabeth Chudleigh as Iphigenia at the Venetian Ambassador's Masquerade

Susannah Maria Cibber (nee Arne) as Cordelia in a scene from "King Lear"

Lotta Crabtree as Denise de Flavigny in "Mamzelle Nitouche"

Josephine Clifton (nee Miller) in character

John Cooper as Earl Percy

George Frederick Cooke as Sir Pertinax Macsycophant in "The Man of the World"

Portrait and cast list for "The Man of the World" with George Frederick Cooke as Sir Pertinax Macsycophant

Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"

Edmund Kean as Sir Edward Mortimer in "The Iron Chest"

Dorothy Jordan as Isabella

Dorothy Jordan as Peggy in a scene from "The Country Girl"

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

Dorothy Jordan as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"

Charles John Kean as Claude Melnotte in "The Lady of Lyons"

Charles John Kean as Hamlet in "Hamlet"

Charles John Kean as Selim in "Barbarossa"

Ellen Kean, when Ellen Tree, as Ion in "Ion"

Ellen Kean, when Ellen Tree, as Lady Teazle in "The School for Scandal"

Edmund Kean as Lucius Junius Brutus in "Brutus"

Edmund Kean as Macbeth in "Macbeth"

Edmund Kean as Omreah in "The Carib Chief"

Edmund Kean as Sir Pertinax Macsycophant in "The Man of the World"

Caricature of Edmund Kean

Robert Keeley as Nicodemus Crowquill in "Peter Wilkins"

Laura Keene as Florence Trenchard in "Our American Cousin"

Lotta Crabtree as La Cigale in "La Cigale" on sheet music cover
Image | 1884 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Looking to left, through a window adorned with leaves, right hand shading eyes. Music sheet, "Lotta's Little Gypsy Song: Down Upon the Silver Strand" by F. Belasco.
Anna Maria Crouch (nee Phillips) as Pythia in "Creusa"
Image | 1797 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing long veil.
Marie Caroline Cubitt as the Gypsy Girl in "Guy Mannering"
Image | 1827 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing hat with ribbon streamers, flowers in hair.
Peter C. Cunningham as Bailie Nicol Jarvie
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Holding poker in right hand, left hand grasping tie. Facsimilie signature. Process print of lithograph.
Elizabeth Chudleigh as Iphigenia at the Venetian Ambassador's Masquerade
Image | 1749 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Standing in dance-like position, wearing costume which reveals most of her body, save a band at the waist and a leaf-like sash at the hips.
Susannah Maria Cibber (nee Arne) as Cordelia in a scene from "King Lear"
Image | Portraits of Actorsfemale attendant to right, holding her hand, and countryman in background.
Lotta Crabtree as Denise de Flavigny in "Mamzelle Nitouche"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing Japanese costume, parasol in right hand.
Josephine Clifton (nee Miller) in character
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length. Wearing brooch, holding letter in hand. With Text: Miss Clifton, the Distinguished American Tragic Actress."
John Cooper as Earl Percy
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing Crusader's costume, looking to left. Tinted with colored paste, the whole mounted onto an irregular scrap.
George Frederick Cooke as Sir Pertinax Macsycophant in "The Man of the World"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing wig, embroidered coat, waistcoat. With text: "Conscience! Sir it is an unparliamentary word."
Portrait and cast list for "The Man of the World" with George Frederick Cooke as Sir Pertinax Macsycophant
Image | 1810 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing wig, embroidered coat, waistcoat. Cast list attached.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1822 | Portraits of Actorspointing to sword on ground.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1888 | Portraits of Actorsbaton in right hand.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, lying on the ground. With text: "Perdition catch thy arm the chance is thine. But Oh: the vast Renown thou hast acquired. In conquering Richard does afflict him more than even his Body's parting with its Soul". Act V.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, truncheon in right hand.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With title: "The Infant Kean as Richard III"
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing truncheon in right hand.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1818 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, truncheon in upfraised right hand, tents in background. With text: "A thousand hearts are great within my bosom: advance our standards...upon them! Victory sits on our helms". Act V, Scene 3.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | Portraits of ActorsNearly half-length portrait. Original ink and wash drawing.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, castle in background.
Edmund Kean as Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, left hand upraised. Original pencil sketch with wash.
Edmund Kean as Sir Edward Mortimer in "The Iron Chest"
Image | 1828 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, scene with chest in background.
Dorothy Jordan as Isabella
Image | Portraits of ActorsNearly three-quarter-length portrait, in wide hat with feathers and mantle.
Dorothy Jordan as Peggy in a scene from "The Country Girl"
Image | 1808 | Portraits of Actorsman standing in doorway back of her. With text: Moody: "What writing more Letters." Peggy: "O Lord! Bud why fright me so."
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.
Dorothy Jordan as Widow Bellmour in "The Way to Keep Him"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in a room reading a book, wearing embroidered veil and shawl, and a glove on one hand. With text: "O blest with temper or whose undouded ray, can make to morrow chearfull as to day". Act III, Scene 1.
Charles John Kean as Claude Melnotte in "The Lady of Lyons"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, left hand inside waistcoat, right hand at back. With text: "Taunt on Sir _ I spar'd you when you were unarmed _ I am unarmed now. A Man who has no Excuse for crime is indeed defenseless."
Charles John Kean as Hamlet in "Hamlet"
Image | Portraits of Actorsleaning on chair with thrones in background. With text: "Tis now the very witching time of night".
Charles John Kean as Selim in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1827 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing turban, embroidered tunic and vest.
Ellen Kean, when Ellen Tree, as Ion in "Ion"
Image | 1837 | Portraits of Actorsholding knife. With text: "Was not that thunder".
Ellen Kean, when Ellen Tree, as Lady Teazle in "The School for Scandal"
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing hat and necklace with pendant.
Edmund Kean as Lucius Junius Brutus in "Brutus"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
Edmund Kean as Lucius Junius Brutus in "Brutus"
Image | 1825 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, holding paper in right hand.
Edmund Kean as Macbeth in "Macbeth"
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing armor and holding claymore sword.
Edmund Kean as Omreah in "The Carib Chief"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding portion of broken necklace in each hand. With text: "Girl_who were thy parents?" Act V, Scene 3.
Edmund Kean as Sir Pertinax Macsycophant in "The Man of the World"
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait.
Caricature of Edmund Kean
Image | 1810 | Portraits of ActorsKean seated at head of table with five other men, all drinking. Published at the time of Kean's dispute with Bucke. Title: "The Wolves Club"
Robert Keeley as Nicodemus Crowquill in "Peter Wilkins"
Image | 1829 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing large hat and wide trousers.
Laura Keene as Florence Trenchard in "Our American Cousin"
Image | 1896 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, facsimilie signature.

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