Mrs Elizabeth Hartley in the character of Lady Jane Grey in John Banks’ Lady Jane Grey, Covent Garden Theatre, 1773. Elizabeth Hartley was a famous actor on the London stage and scandalous figure, 1750?–1824. Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1776.

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