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Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Jane Shore in "Jane Shore"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "This is the Door of my Alicia."
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.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Tragic Muse reciting the monody to the memory of Mr. Garrick
Image | 1783 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing in front of a sculpture bust of David Garrick.
Portrait of Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham)
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsPortrait, bust.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) speaking the epilogue to "The Earl of Warwick"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing bell-shaped skirt with ruffled trim
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Almeria in "The Mourning Bride"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, kneeling, hands clasped. With text: "Did ever father curse his kneeling child!"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Cleopatra in "All For Love"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing, supported by two women. With text: "I'll die, I will not bear it, you may hold me."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Zaphira in "Barbarossa"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "No tyrant's threat can awe the free-born soul, That greatly dares to die."
Portrait of Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham)
Image | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Agnes in "The Fatal Curiosity"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "O! no! he lives he struggles yet."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Calista in "The Fair Penitent"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing, holding dagger. With text: "It is but thus, and both are satisfy'd."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Isabella in "Isabella"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, right hand on breast. With text: "I give you all my hand
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Mandane in "Cyrus"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length, standing. Colored print.
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.
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."
William O'Brien as Edgar, Thomas King as Florimond and Mrs. Yates as Emmeline in a scene from "Edgar and Emmeline"
Image | 1794 | Portraits of ActorsScene, indoors. Act 1, Scene 2.
Portrait of Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham)
Image | Portraits of ActorsNearly whole-length portrait, seated, open book in right hand.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Belvidera in "Venice Preserved"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, hands clasped. With text: "Oh! Call back your cruel Blessing."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Calista in "The Fair Penitent"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "Strike home, & I will bless thee for the blow."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Jane Shore in "Jane Shore"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, leaning against a doorway. With text: "Why should I wander? Stray further on, for I can die ev'n here!"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Lady Townley in "The Provoked Husband"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, fan in right hand.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Lady Townley and William Smith as Lord Townley in a scene from "The Provoked Husband"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsScene with the two facing each other. With text: Lady Townley -- "I am now going to a party at Quadrille, only to piddle with a little of it, at poor two Guineas a fish, with the Duchess of Quiteright."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Medea in "Medea"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, supported by two women. With text: "What spark of wisdom in my breast remains? All is extinguished there _ Oh! Jason! Jason!"
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Ximena in "Ximena"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "stain'd with the blood of Carlos kills Ximena."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Ximena in "Ximena"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, kneeling, hands clasped. With text: "My duty, Sir, hath spoken, & kneels for Judgement."
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Zara in "Zara"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing. With text: "Oh, what a Wretch am I! O Grief! O Love."

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