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Charles Mathews as the Old Scotch Lady in 'At Home'

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Charles Mathews as the Old Scotch Lady in 'At Home'

by George Clint, after Alfred Edward Chalon
mezzotint, published 1819
7 in. x 6 in. (177 mm x 152 mm) paper size
Given by W. Bennett, 1936
Reference Collection
NPG D3686

Sitterback to top

  • Charles Mathews (1776-1835), Comedian. Sitter associated with 22 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.

Artistsback to top

  • Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860), Portrait and subject painter. Artist or producer associated with 180 portraits, Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
  • George Clint (1770-1854), Portrait painter and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 79 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D3685: Charles Mathews as the Old Scotch Lady in 'At Home' (from same plate)
  • NPG D3684: Charles Mathews as the Old Scotch Lady in 'At Home' (from same plate)

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Events of 1819back to top

Current affairs

Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.
Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.

Art and science

Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.
Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.

International

Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.
Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.

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