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A Tip-Top Living, or the writing captain supported by the world   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: William Moore
Title
A Tip-Top Living, or the writing captain supported by the world
Description
English: Topham sits cross-legged on a terrestrial globe, the poles being on the right and left; a band inscribed 'Equator - Wells' bisects it vertically. He has a plate before him and is cutting up 'Characters' with a knife and fork. The cockade in his hat is formed of three crossed pens. He is surrounded by smoke inscribed 'Reports' and 'Puffs'. Various objects stand on the surface of the globe: an inkstand (on the Blacks Sea), a moneybag inscribed 'Compliment' and labelled 'To the Editor' (on the Pacific Ocean), a decanter of 'Port' (on the 'Red Sea'), a sirloin inscribed 'Bull', a (?) leg of mutton inscribed 'Ram'. Other places on the map are 'Assassins Bay', 'Cape Horn', and 'Rogues Island'. A curving line touching the equator is inscribed 'Ecliptic Line - Scandal'. 10 June 1787
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Depicted people Representation of: Edward Topham
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 148 millimetres
Width: 100 millimetres (corners damaged)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5650
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

For Topham's daily paper, 'The World', see BMSat 7210, &c. It was noted for its puffs of Mrs. Wells, its sensational personal news, and its attacks on private characters. See 'D.N.B.' Topham had been called a 'Tip-Top Adjutant' in 1779, see BMSat 5596.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5650
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