Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

John Mills in a scene from a play with Mrs. Porter and Mr. Cibber
Image | Portraits of ActorsScene from a play with Mills peeking out from under table.
Isabella Mattocks (nee Hallam) as the Widow Warren in "The Road to Ruin"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing a hat with three large plumes and holding an open fan in right hand. With text: "My scenic faults and follies laid aside, No widow now, nor disapointed bride, My own plain self I once again resume, Sent by the author here, to know his doom."
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.
Drinkwater Meadows as Simon Pure
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing hat, hands joined in front, holding a glove.
Charles Mathews as Goldfinch in "The Road to Ruin"
Image | 1819 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing top hat and holding whip.
Charles Mathews as Gregory in "The Mock Doctor"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in the woods holding a knife.
John Moody as Teague in "The Committee"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wrapped in torn cloth, holding scroll. With text: "A poor Irishman, & Christ save me, & save you all I pry'thee give me sixpence good Masters."
John Moody as Teague in "The Committee"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wrapped in torn cloth holding a scroll. With text: "A poor Irishman & Christ save me & save you all I pr'ythee give me Sixpence good Masters."
Henry Mossop as Zanga in "The Revenge"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Thus perish all that gives Alonzo pain!"
Charles Mathews as the Old Scotch Lady in "At Home"
Image | Portraits of ActorsPortrait, bust, in women's attire. With text: "it's just a leetle Anecdote."
Charles Mathews in character playing a horn
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length, wearing a hat with flowers. One of six pages from "Nine Portraits Forming a Series of Characters, Illustrative of Mathews." With text: "A boy from the mountains as sweet as a dove, Sings a song about Cows milking and Love
Charles Mathews as eleven characters in his entertainment "Invitations"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portraits, two seated, rest standing, in various costumes.
Harriot Mellon as Anne Lovely in "A Bold Stroke for a Wife"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, arms folded, wearing cap and apron. With text: "I greatly fear the flesh, and the weakness thereof hum."
Charlotte Melmoth as Queen Elizabeth in "The Earl of Essex"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Unhappy man! My yielding soul is touch'd."
Ann Brunton Merry as Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"
Image | Portraits of ActorsLine drawing printed in bistre.
Ann Brunton Merry as Calista in "The Fair Penitent"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing black dress, with hair hanging over right shoulder, coffin in background.
Ann Brunton Merry as Horatia in "The Roman Father"
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, with three stars on belt.
John Moody as Jobson in "The Devil to Pay"
Image | 1790 | Portraits of ActorsPortrait, bust.
Charles Mayne Young as Iago in "Othello"
Image | 1829 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) with Laurence Clinch as the Duke and Duchess of Braganza in "Braganza"
Image | 1785 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing together holding hands.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Electra in "Orestes"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, manacled, holding urn. With text: "O dear memorial of my dearest friend, Ye scanty. Reliques of Orestes, Oh!"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Eurydice
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "Why Love renounc'd thee ere thou Saw'st the light."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Isabella in "Isabella"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "Indeed I am most wretched!"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, holding a dagger in each hand. Caption in German.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Medea in "Medea"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing crown with feathers.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Virginia in "Virginia"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-lengt portrait. With text: "For tho! I love, yet still I am a Roman."
Lizzie Weston (other married names Davenport, Mathews) as Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Image | 1855 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing crown, holding wand. With text: "And Maidens call it, love in _ idlesness. Fetch me that flower."
Thomas Weston as Scrub in the prologue "Scrub's Trip to The Jubilee"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "The procession 'twas said wou'd have been a fine Train, But could not move forward. _ oh, la! for the Rain."
Elizabeth Whitelock (nee Kemble) as Margaret in "The Earl of Warwick"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, wearing crown/helmet, skirt with fringe, robe with ermine trim: "From my breast I drew a poignard forth, and plung'd it in his heart."
James Pimbury Wilkinson as Geoffrey Muffincap in "Amateurs and Actors"
Image | 1828 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing cap.
Margaret ("Peg") Woffington as the Female Volunteer
Image | 1746 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, in officer's uniform. With title: "The Female Volunteer: or, an Attempt to make our Men Stand. An Epilogue intended to be spoken by Mrs. Woffington in the habit of a volunteer, upon reading the Gazette containing an account of the late action at Falkirk." With copy of the epilogue below. Facsimile of the rare original.
Margaret ("Peg") Woffington as Sir Harry Wildair in "The Constant Couple"
Image | Portraits of ActorsNearly three-quarter-length portrait, right hand inside waistcoat.
Margaret ("Peg") Woffington in character
Image | 1795 | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, wearing sheer veil, holding staff.
Richard Wilson as a Farmer in "The Farmer's Return From London"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, seated, with whip, holding mug.
Richard Wilson as Old Mirabel in "The Inconstant"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in a room, holding up cane.
Henry Woodward as Bobadil in "Every Man in His Humour"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsScene with Bobadil seated on a bench, drawing a boot on right foot, addressing his hostess, standing in doorway at right. With text: "What a Plague! _ what mean't He? _ Who's there? _ take away the Bason Good Hostess!"
Henry Woodward as Bobadil in "Every Man in His Humour"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsBust portrait in oval on same plate with a bust portrait of actress playing "Mrs. B."
Henry Woodward as Captain Brazen in "The Recruiting Officer"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing officer's uniform. With text: "Truth to the Touch! faith."
Richard Wroughton as George Barnwell in "George Barnwell"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing.
Richard Yates as Lovegold in "The Miser"
Image | 1806 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing. With text: "In short Lappet I must touch, touch, touch something real."

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