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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…

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…

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…

oval half-length etching

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

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

In this portrait, Ben Jonson wears a black shirt and white collar.

List of characters and players for the first run of The Country Wife in 1675 at Drury Lane Theater.

Formal portrait of Charles II seated on the throne in full regalia. For more information, see The Royal Collection

Portrait of Charlotte Charke, actress famous for her breeches roles onstage and cross-dressing offstage.