King Henry VIII, II.4: Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) as Queen Katherine.

Siddons was noted for her total involvement in the role, to a terrifying degree, according to fellow actors in roles whom the Queen censures. Genest says after her censure of Cardinal Campeius for mistaking that her anger as directed against him: "no language can possibly convey a picture of her immediate re-assumption of the fulness of majesty, glowing with scorn, contempt, anger, and terrifying pride of innocence, when she turns round to Wolsey and exclaims, "to YOU I speak." (John Genest, Some Account of the Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, Bath, 1832, 8.303) With Stephen Kemble as King Henry VIII; John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) as Cardinal Wolsey; Charles Kemble (1775-1854) as Cardinal Campeius. Painter: George Henry Harlow; from a page in Illustrated News of the World, Jan. 30, 1892. Furness Image Collection.