As You Like It (1859?): Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1819 - 1870) as Rosalind.

The sexiness of this Victorian costume for a woman playing a boy is very apparent. Anna was regarded as a leading American actress, specializing in Shakespearean roles and performing her own plays. Edgar Alan Poe said that her "remarkably fine" face was "of that precise character best adapted to the stage," and "the great charm of her manner is its naturalness." Her life on stage, Autobiography of an Actress, is a useful theatrical sourcebook Plate in: The Complete Works of Shakespeare, from the original text. New York: Johnson, Fry & Co. Courtesy of the Furness Theatrical Image Collection, University of Pennsylvania.