ALT A photo from the new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum. A man stands with his back to the camera, facing a wall of illustrations of Charles Dickens.

ALT A woman, wearing blue gloves, looking through Charles Dickens’s white binoculars at “The Lost Portrait” of young Dickens.

ALT A photo of one of the exhibition rooms, with illustrations of Dickens’s characters on one wall. The “Life of Charles Dickens” by John Forster stands on a purple pedestal in the middle of the room.

ALT A close-up of the Museum’s red font door, with a cardboard cut-out of Charles Dickens standing in the open doorway.

ALT In the narrow Lobby to the Breakfast Room, the walls - from floor to ceiling - are adorned with friezes and casts, with many objects on pedestals.

ALT An arrangement of busts and sculptures, clustered together in a corner of the Lobby to the Breakfast Room.

ALT Various shots of the Oxford Street star shaped lights aglow