Caption:
Mr Robert Bensley in the character of Mahomet in James Millers Mahomet, Drury Lane Theatre, 1765. Bensley was an 18th-century English actor, 1740-1817. Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bells British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1776.