Carlotta Leclercq
in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

An example of this portrait appears in one of Queen Victoria's carte-de-visite albums in the Royal Photograph Collection at Windsor, where the role is identified as Ariel, the airy spirit in The Tempest. However, portraits of the same sitter in the same costume are not uncommon in stereoscopic format and the role is almost always identified as that of Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Various newspaper reports confirm this, for example, this report on a contemporary production then enjoying a run at Daly's Theatre:

'The most noticeable modern revival of the comedy was that of Charles Kean, who mounted it at the Princesses' in 1856, Miss Ellen Terry being Puck, her sister Kate the Dancing Fairy, and Carlotta Leclercq Titania' (The Sketch, 31 July 1895). 

When Kean's producation was first staged, one reviewer thought that 'Miss Carlotta Leclercq made a lovely and languishing Titania' (Bell's Sporting Life, 19 October 1856), while another deemed her 'as faëry-like as could be desired' (Aberdeen Press and Journal, 22 October 1856).