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Image Description: This detailed view depicts two key Bankside (i.e., south of the Thames) entertainment options for Elizabethan audiences: the Rose Theatre (which is actually mislabeled on Visscher's original as the Globe) and Bear-baiting Arena.…

Half-length portrait of Nell Gywn.

Kitty Clive sits with a book of music open on her lap, looking at the viewer. She wears a decollete gown with puffed sleeves ending at the elbow. At her right an open window is partly draped with a dark curtain. Her right elbow rests on a cushion.

In this portrait, Burbage is wearing a white collar and black shirt.

Full-length portrait of Litchfield in the role of Imoinda. Standing in front of a forest, she faces slightly left with arms outspread and the right palm forward. She wears a dark beaded necklace, a turban with a large feather, and a dark fringed sash…

William Powell as Oroonoko recoiling backwards with both arms extended and hands outstretched. His left leg is bent while his right is extended forward. Aboan slouches to the left of him, beside a group of trees. Behind the figures is a small town.