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Half-length portrait.For more information, seeYale Center for British Art

Half-length portrait of actress Anne Oldfield wearing laurel crown and cowhorn curls. Pearls accent her multicolored gown. For more information, see NPG.

oval half-length etching

A woman pulls on red breeches, aided by her serving-maid on the left, while a partially-shaved poodle looks on. A pair of stays, a sword, and a playbill sit on a stool; behind them is a dressing table with cosmetics on the right; background includes…

This imaginative illustration features a lone actor performing on a proscenium stage in the courtyard area of an Elizabethan London inn. Surrounding the temporarily constructed stage on three sides is a densely packed audience. Beyond the confines…

Patch box--often often used to hold beauty patches in the 18th century--with abolition motif, "AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER." A black figure with chains on his clasped hands and feet kneels on grass flanked by a ship on water and two houses…

title page of the second edition of Collier's pamphlet

Oil painting of a final climactic scene of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. Macheath stands chained between Lucy Lockit and Polly Peachum who are both pleading with their fathers for his death sentence to be revoked. The live audience is…

Description: In this illustration, a 'ghost' prepares to ascend the ladder and appear on stage via the trapdoor. Two young apprentices mechanically operate the trapdoor, which slides back and forth on specially constructed grooves. Aside from the…

Trailer for National Theatre's adaptation of The Man of Mode