Mr. Richard Yates in the character of Don Manuel in Colley Cibber’s She Wou’d and She Wou’d Not, Drury Lane Theatre, 1748. Yates was an English comic actor and manager, 1708-1796. Copperplate engraving by B. Reading 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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