Margaret Peg Woffington (1717-1760), Irish actress and singer. Celebrated for her beauty and wit, famous for her performances with actor-manager David Garrick, notorious for her brawl with Catherine Clive. Pictured as a shepherdess with a staff in her right hand. Oval portrait copperplate engraving from a painting by John Giles Eccardt in the possession of Charles Bedford Esq., engraved by Pearson, published in the European Magazine, J. Sewell, Cornhill, London, 1795.

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