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Joseph George Holman as Douglas in "Douglas"
Image | 1791 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing plaid breeches, cloth tied over shoulder.
Julia Glover as Mrs. Candour in "The School for Scandal"
Image | 1826 | 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.
Caricature of Charles John Kean
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length caricature, seated, feet in tub of hot water, phantom figure of Macbeth rising from a bowl of gruel, table with medicine, etc. With text: "Mr. Charles Kean is seriously indisposed. He is suffering from the effects of overwork and consequent nervous exhaustion complicated by an attack of influenza."
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.
Portrait of Ellen Kean (nee Tree)
Image | 1860 | Portraits of ActorsHalf length portrait, wearing collar of lace with bow.
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.
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.
Portrait of Fanny Josephs
Image | Portraits of ActorsPortrait, bust, wearing cap and collar with lace trim.
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 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.
Robert Keeley as Nicodemus Crowquill in "Peter Wilkins"
Image | 1829 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing large hat and wide trousers.
Portrait of Laura Keene
Image | Portraits of ActorsThree-quarter-length portrait, seated.
Laura Keene as Florence Trenchard in "Our American Cousin"
Image | 1896 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, facsimilie signature.
Edmund Kean as Sir Edward Mortimer in "The Iron Chest"
Image | 1828 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, scene with chest in background.
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"
Laura Keene as Portia in "The Merchant of Venice"
Image | 1859 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, pointing to caskets on table.
Michael Kelly as Lionel in "Lionel and Clarissa"
Image | 1788 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, hand in pocket of breeches. With text: "Oh! talk not to me of the wealth she possesses". Act II, Scene 1.
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.
Dorothy Jordan as Isabella
Image | Portraits of ActorsNearly three-quarter-length portrait, in wide hat with feathers and mantle.
Anna Maria Crouch (nee Phillips) as Pythia in "Creusa"
Image | 1797 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length. Wearing long veil.
Portrait of Anna Cruise (Anna Cowell)
Image | Portraits of ActorsBust. Wearing lace collar, brooch with miniature. Print of lithograph. Caption: "Anne Cruise, Comedienne"
Marie Caroline Cubitt as the Gypsy Girl in "Guy Mannering"
Image | 1827 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length. Wearing hat with ribbon streamers, flowers in hair.

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