Mrs Elizabeth Hopkins in the character of Irene in John Brown’s Barbarossa. However, she did not play the role in London, her mother played it in 1761. Mrs Michael Sharp, 1756-1801, daughter of William Hopkins and actress Elizabeth Hopkins. 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, 1777.

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