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Prints: P1178
Title
Mathews & Yates' New Entertainment
Subject
Date
c.1826
Dimensions
height: 30.5cm
width: 24cm
width: 24cm
Other materials
etching
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Professor Jim Davis, acquired by the Garrick Club in 2024
Other number
E0162
This print depicts Charles Mathews behind his usual cloth covered table. He is depicted wearing womrn's clothing. Surrounding him are eleven characters that either Charles Mathews or Frederick Henry Yates played. The two gentlement met in 1817/1818 at a ball, and Yates then travelled to Paris with Mathews. Mathews convinved Yates to become an actor and the two performed together and from 1828 co managed the Adelphi together.
