Mrs Mary Ann Yates in the character of Electra in Thomas Francklin’s Orestes or Electra at Drury Lane Theatre, 1774. 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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