print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.5453
- Title
- Object: Capt, Epilogue.
- Description
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Captain Topham walks in profile (right to left) looking sideways after a lady in the background who is walking down a street at right angles to that in which he is walking. A signpost behind her points 'To The Wells' indicating that she is the actress Mary Wells to whom Topham was attached, see BMSat 6854, 6999, 7058, and index. Topham is slim and upright, a cane under his left arm. He wears a cut-away ('sparrow-tail') coat with a high collar, shirt-frill, and close-fitting breeches, cf. BMSat 6718, &c. He was a noted writer of prologues and epilogues, cf. BMSat 6840, 6854. 5 October 1785
Etching
- Production date
- 1785
- Dimensions
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Height: 246 millimetres
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Width: 163 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
Reissued, 7 Mar. 1786, see also BMSat 7060.
Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 167.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.5453