Mrs Elizabeth Hartley in the character of Almeyda in John Dryden’s Don Sebastien, Covent Garden Theatre, 1774. Elizabeth Hartley was a famous actor on the London stage and scandalous figure, 1750?–1824. 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, 1778.

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