(THEATER) Hollis Thomas engraver; after a photograph by Pain

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(THEATER.) Hollis, Thomas, engraver; after a photograph by Paine. Mr. Ira Aldridge as Mungo, in The Padlock. Engraving, 10 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; minor foxing, spot-mounted to a heavy scrapbook leaf along with a short biographical clipping on Aldridge. London: John Tallis, circa 1860s

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Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) was an African-American actor from New York who reached the pinnacle of his profession after moving to London in 1824 to avoid discrimination. He is here depicted in one of his most famous roles, as the lead in Charles Dibdin's 1768 play The Padlock--in a role originally played by Dibdin in blackface.