In Character: Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'

Portraits of actors and actresses portraying characters from Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'.

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Sir Henry Irving as Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Edward Lyddell Sawyer, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
published after 1901 (1879)
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Charles Kemble as Shylock in 'Merchant of Venice'
by Richard James Lane, printed by Jérémie Graf, published by Colnaghi and Puckle, after Alfred Edward Chalon
published May 1840
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Arthur Bourchier as Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Alexander Corbett, for Alfred Ellis & Walery, published by J. Beagles & Co
1905
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Ellen Terry as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Window & Grove, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
1879; published 1900s
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Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson as Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Lizzie Caswall Smith, published by Davidson Brothers
circa 1906
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Gertrude Elliott as Portia and Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson as Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Lizzie Caswall Smith, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
circa 1906
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Mary Ann Povey (Mrs Knight) as Jessica in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Thomas Woolnoth, published by Simpkin and Marshall, published by Clement Chapple, after Thomas Charles Wageman
published 1820
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Mary Ann Povey (Mrs Knight) as Jessica in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Thomas Woolnoth, published by Simpkin and Marshall, published by Clement Chapple, after Thomas Charles Wageman
published 1820
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Mary Ann Povey (Mrs Knight) as Jessica in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Thomas Woolnoth, published by Simpkin and Marshall, after Thomas Charles Wageman
published 1820
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Lord Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart as Salario in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Robert Faulkner & Co, published by Hudson & Kearns Ltd
20 June 1911, published 1912
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