Mr. Reddish in the character of Edgar in William Shakespeare's King Lear, at Drury Lane Theatre, 21 October, 1767. In tricorne, ragged coat, breeches, waving a staff. Reddish was an English actor, best at playing beaux and noblemen in sentimental plays, who died in York Asylum, 1735-1785. Copperplate engraving by Charles Grignion after a portrait by Thomas Parkinson from John Bell's Edition of Shakespeare, London, Feb. 19th, 1776.

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