From 25 March to late April 1824, comic actor and impersonator Charles Mathews performed the most famous of his annual “At Home” shows at London’s Lyceum Theatre. Image: Charles Mathews, detail from a mezzotint by C. Turner, 1825, after an oil painting by James Lonsdale. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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