Mr David Garrick in the character of tobacco seller Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist, Drury Lane Theatre, 1743. Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer, 1717-1779. 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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