Miss Ann Brown and Mr. George Mattocks in the characters of Miranda and Ferdinand in an operatic version of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Covent Garden Theatre, 1776. George Mattocks was an actor, singer and dancer, 1735-1804. Ann Brown, later Mrs. Ann Cargill, was a British opera diva who died in the shipwreck of the Nancy in 1784. Copperplate engraving by Charles Grignion after an illustration drawn from life by Robert Dighton published in The Universal Magazine, J. Wright, London, 1777.

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