2-721-593 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Kemble', (1757-1823), 1830. John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) English actor and brother of Sarah Siddons, engaged at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where he became manager in 1778 and Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, from 1803 where following a fire, he inflated prices which led to the Old Price Riots. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]