Mr David Garrick in drag in the character of Sir John Brute in John Vanbrugh’s The Provok’d Wife, Drury Lane Theatre, Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer, 1717-1779. Copperplate engraving 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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