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[edit]The moment of imagination.
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The moment of imagination. |
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| Description |
English: Edward Topham, seated in profile to the right, a pen in his hand, has just kicked over his circular writing-table in frenzied inspiration. He raises his clenched left fist. An inkstand and fragments of paper inscribed 'Epilogue Mrs W----- [Wells] Hay-Market, Epilogue Mrs S------s [Siddons] Drury-lane', and 'Prologue for Miss F------[Farren] Covent Garden' lie on the ground. On the wall (right) hangs an oval bust portrait of Mrs. Siddons, her head turned in profile to the left. Above and behind Topham's head is a small parrot in a cage, saying, "Bravo Captn Prologue! Bravo!" 13 January 1785
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1785 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1980,U.1636 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, VI, 1938) Topham was noted for his skill in composing prologues and epilogues, see BMSat 6855, &c. For his connexion with Mrs. Wells see BMSat 6854, 6999, and index. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1980-U-1636 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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