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  • The amateur actor Robert Coates dreaming about his success on the stage in the role of Romeo. Aquatint attributed to "The Caricaturist General", 1812.
  • Four faces expressing the passions: (clockwise from top left) hatred, wonder, love and jealousy; and (right) the frontispiece to the book containing the illustrations, a manual of acting. Engraving by Silvester, 1807.
  • Actors in the pantomime "Sindbad" at Drury Lane.
  • Saint Granier. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • The actor Dodd as Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's 'The alchemist'. Engraving by J. Thornthwaite after S. de Wilde.
  • Kitty Fisher. Mezzotint by C. Tomkins after Sir J. Reynolds.
  • Two black actors, one in drag, dance together on stage. Coloured process print, ca. 1903.
  • Billy Lorraine in drag, posing for a portrait. Photographic postcard, ca. 1930.
  • Jaque Catelain. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Jackie Coogan in character as a little Flemish girl. Process print, 192-.
  • Herbert Campbell and Dan Leno in character. Photographic postcard by Hana Studios, 190-.
  • Ernest Lotinga in battledress and wearing makeup. Photographic postcard, 193-.
  • Morris Harvey and H. G. Pélissier in "Count Hannibal".
  • A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Gus Garrick in costume.
  • Garrick, Burton and Palmer in a production of Ben Jonson's 'The alchemist'. Mezzotint, 1772 (?).
  • Fred Hutchings in character; performing on stage. Process print, 191-.
  • Michael Redgrave. Photographic postcard, 193-.
  • Olaf Storm. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Billy Lorraine in drag, posing for a portrait. Photographic postcard, ca. 1930.
  • Morris Harvey, H. G. Pélissier, and Lewis Sydney in "Count Hannibal".
  • Julian Eltinge. Process print, 1916.
  • Lyell Johnson & Fred Groome.
  • Three actors, one in drag, pose lighting cigarettes.
  • Gus Garrick in drag as a pantomime dame.
  • Abel Drugger, from Ben Jonson's 'The alchemist', in a posture of combat. Engraving by J. Thornthwaite, 1777, after Roberts.
  • Pierre Pradier in his dressing room. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Viola Hamilton, posing in a classical attitude against a square column.
  • An actor in drag costume as "Auntie Casey".
  • Actors in pantomime in Brighton: S. West playing King Robert of Remlaf and H. Taylor in drag as Queen Aggie of Remlaf. Photographic postcard.