Mr. William Smith in the character of Publius in William Whitehead’s Roman Father, Covent Garden Theatre, 1767. Smith was an English actor and theatre manager, 1730-1819. 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, 1778.

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