CHAPTER XVI.

THE AUTHOR STEPS OUT OF HIS WAY. PLEADS HIS THEATRICAL CAUSE IN CHANCERY, ETC. 192

SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER 257

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLLEY CIBBER 289

A BRIEF SUPPLEMENT TO COLLEY CIBBER, ESQ; HIS LIVES OF THE LATE FAMOUS ACTORS AND ACTRESSES 299

MEMOIRS OF ACTORS AND ACTRESSES 319

LIST OF MEZZOTINT PORTRAITS.

NEWLY ENGRAVED BY R. B. PARKES.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

PAGE I. COLLEY CIBBER, in the character of "Sir Novelty Fashion, newley created Lord Foppington," in Vanbrugh's play of "The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger." From the painting by J. Grisoni. The property of the Garrick Club. _Frontispiece_

II. OWEN SWINEY. After the painting by John Baptist Vanloo. 54

III. ANNE OLDFIELD. From the picture by Jonathan Richardson. 70

IV. THEOPHILUS CIBBER, in the character of "Antient Pistol." 86

V. HESTER SANTLOW (Mrs. Barton Booth). After an original picture from the life. 104

VI. ROBERT WILKS. After the painting by John Ellys, 1732. 122

VII. RICHARD STEELE. From the painting by Jonathan Richardson, 1712. 172

VIII. BARTON BOOTH. From the picture by George White. 206

IX. SUSANNA MARIA CIBBER. After a painting by Thomas Hudson. 222

X. CHARLES FLEETWOOD. "Sir Fopling Flutter Arrested." "Drawn from a real Scene." John Dixon _ad vivum del et fect_. 254

XI. ALEXANDER POPE, at the age of 28. After the picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller, painted in 1716. 272

XII. SUSANNA MARIA CIBBER, in the character of Cordelia, "King Lear," act iii. After the picture by Peter Van Bleeck. 288

XIII. CAVE UNDERHILL, in the character of Obadiah, "The Fanatic Elder." After the picture by Robert Bing, 1712. 306

LIST OF CHAPTER HEADINGS.

NEWLY ETCHED FROM CONTEMPORARY DRAWINGS BY ADOLPHE LALAUZE.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

X. SCENE ILLUSTRATING CIBBER'S "CARELESS HUSBAND." After the picture by Philip Mercier.

XI. COFFEE-HOUSE SCENE OF CIBBER'S DAY, "drawn from the life" by G. Vander Gucht.

XII. SCENE ILLUSTRATING "THE ITALIAN OPERA," WITH SENESINO, CUZZONI, &C. From a contemporary design.

XIII. SCENE ILLUSTRATING FARQUHAR'S "RECRUITING OFFICER." After the picture by Philip Mercier.

XIV. SCENE ILLUSTRATING ADDISON'S "CATO." After the contemporary design by Lud. du Guernier.

XV. SCENE ILLUSTRATING VANBRUGH AND CIBBER'S "PROVOKED HUSBAND." After the contemporary design by J. Vanderbank.

XVI. SCENE ILLUSTRATING VANBRUGH'S "PROVOKED WIFE." After the contemporary design by Arnold Vanhaecken.

XVII. "THE STAGE MUTINY," with portraits of Theophilus Cibber as "Antient Pistol," Mrs. Wilks, and others, in character; Colley Cibber as Poet Laureate, with his lap filled with bags of money. From a pictorial satire of the time.

XVIII. ANTHONY ASTON'S "THE FOOL'S OPERA."

AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MR. COLLEY CIBBER, &c.