Regency actor with costume and props looking for lodgings, being refused by the landlord. Proteus in search of lodgings. Peregrine displays too much spirit for Ephraim Smooth. Lodgings for single men. Handcoloured engraving etched by Theodore Lane from Pierce Egan’s The Life of an Actor, Pickering and Chatto, London, 1892.

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