A portrait of Charles Dillion from his American visit. The photo was formerly in the archive of "picturehistory.org" whose lamentable business practice and unholy price structure (and limits on the persons with whom they would deal) made their business unprofitable. The archive is now in the possession of a University: Yale, I think, who are a long way off digitising the thousands of images — if ever. God bless Yale for its acquisition, but meantime, here is a saved image (I have somewhat clumsily removed the picturehistory watermark).
If Yale wish this taken down, please drop me a line.
Various other sources:
(1) Victoria and Albert Museum have an agrarian of Dillon as "Belephegor' also, in engraved form, as Hamlet and in Othello (all available in good resolution with an excellent pop-up window with reasonable limits and conditions).
(2) The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne have a CDV in their H88 accession series.
(3) The Baillieu Library in Melbourne has a hand copied engraving in an oval cartouche (a copy of what looks to be an American engraving). (3a) An American engraving, upon which the Baillieu one is based, whose source I cannot find but which is included below.
(4) Harvard has him also in the ubiquitous engravings as Hamlet and Othello.
(5) Yale (see above)
(6) A painting of him as 'Belphegor' painted by Raeburn was mentioned in the book "Conquest: the story of a Theatrical family" but I have never seen the painting.
All in all, not a bad haul.
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