Mrs. Margaret Farrel and Mr. Charles Frederick Reinhold in Persian costume as Artaxerxes and Artabanes in Thomas Arne’s opera Artaxerxes, 1777. Farrell, born Margaret Doyle and later Margaret Kennedy, was a contralto singer and actress (died 1793) Reinhold was an organist, music teacher and later singer on stage and at pleasure gardens, 1741-1815. Copperplate engraving from The Universal Magazine, J. Lowndes, London, 1778.

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