Miss Ann Brown or Ann Cargill in the character of Polly in John Gay’s ballad opera Polly an Opera. Died in 1784 in the shipwreck of the packet ship Nancy. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Roberts drawn from the life from Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1777.

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