Mrs Elizabeth Hopkins in the character of Arethusa in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s Philaster, Drury Lane Theatre, 1773. 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, 1778.

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