Mrs Frances Abington in the character of Mrs Margery Pinchwife in William Wycherley’s The Country Wife, Drury Lane Theatre, 1767. Fanny Abington was a British actress, known for her acting and her fashion, 1737-1815. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1777.

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