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- subject matching 'In Character'
A selection of portraits with representations of characters from the stage, cinema or in writing. See also: 'Film-shots and stage sets' (Theme), 'Masks and disguises' (Dress), 'Fancy Dress' (Dress).
Eleanora ('Ellen') Kean (née Tree) as Chorus in 'King Henry V'
published by Gebhardt, Rottmann & Co
hand-coloured albumen stereoscopic card, 1859
NPG x197228
Caroline Heath as Fiordelisa in 'The Fool's Revenge'
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, October 1859
NPG x196206
Giovanni Matteo de Candia (Mario) as Fernand in 'La Favorita'
by Caldesi, Blanford & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
NPG x20486
Lizzie Weston (née Elizabeth Jackson)
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x27357
Jane Elizabeth ('Eliza') Vezin (née Thomson)
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x27194
Marie-Paul Taglioni in the ballet 'Satanella'
by L. Haase & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x7807
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50559
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
NPG Ax50560
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, 1860s
NPG Ax36252
Ada Cavendish (later Marshall)
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x5722
by Unknown photographer
albumen print on paper mount, 1860s
NPG x18431
by Mayer Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 15 March 1861
NPG Ax25087
Fanny Josephs as Pekoe in 'Aladdin' or the 'Wonderful Scamp'
by Gladwell
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG x18958
Adelina Patti as Rosina in 'The Barber of Seville'
by Camille Silvy
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG Ax25072
Adelina Patti as Martha in 'Martha'
by Camille Silvy
albumen carte-de-visite, July 1861
NPG x12680
Anne Frederica (née Anson), Countess of Wemyss as 'Justice'
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 16 March 1861
NPG Ax51958
Augusta Georgiana Sophia (née Seymour), Lady Charles Brudenell-Bruce as 'Prudence'
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 16 March 1861
NPG Ax51960
Eliza Horatia Frederica (née Seymour), Viscountess Clifden (later Lady Stirling) as 'Fortitude'
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 16 March 1861
NPG Ax51955
Eliza Horatia Frederica (née Seymour), Viscountess Clifden (later Lady Stirling) as 'Fortitude'
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 16 March 1861
NPG Ax51956
Kate Carson as The Slave of the Lamp in 'Aladdin'
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG x5686
Charlotte Frances Frederica Spencer (née Seymour), Countess Spencer as 'Faith'
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 16 March 1861
NPG Ax51961
by Ashford Brothers & Co, after Camille Silvy
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1861
NPG x193206
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 16 March 1861
NPG Ax51957
Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin'
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
NPG Ax25091
Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin'
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
NPG Ax25093
Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin'
by Henry Hering
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
NPG x26514
Clara St Casse as Cupid in 'Endymion'
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
NPG x74511
Charles Albert Fechter in 'The Duke's Motto'
by Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau, or by Heath & Beau
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG Ax11955
Charles James Mathews in 'Un Anglais Timide', otherwise 'Cool as a Cucumber'
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG x21237
Charles James Mathews in 'Un Anglais Timide', otherwise 'Cool as a Cucumber'
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen print, 1863
NPG x21238
Charles James Mathews in 'Un Anglais Timide', otherwise 'Cool as a Cucumber'
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG x21239
Lydia Foote (Lydia Alice Legg) as May Edwards in 'The Ticket-of-Leave Man'
by Charles Bristow Walker
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1863
NPG x13986
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG x20478
Willoughby Hunter Weiss in 'The Desert Flower'
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG x27322
George Vincent as Melter Moss in 'The Ticket-of-Leave Man'
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1863
NPG x27134
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG x22368
Harriet Pelham as Jupiter in 'Ixion'
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG x21754
Jenny Willmore (later Whyatt) in 'Ixion'
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG x27433
Sophy Henrade as the Gipsy Queen in 'The Duke's Motto'
by Southwell Brothers
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG x18415