Francis William Topham

(1808-1877)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Topham, Francis William, 1808-1877 NRA: Topham Francis William (1808-1877) Painter DNB: Topham, Francis William [Frank] (1808-1877), watercolour painter LBT ID: FrTopha1877 VIAF ID: 49096759 LOC ID: nr93002484	B/BAP: 1808-04-15 DIED: 1877-03-31
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English watercolorist who illustrated Walter Scott's Waverley novels, S. C. Hall's Book of Gems (1836), and Charles Dickens's A Child's History of England.
REFERENCES TO Francis William Topham: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 10 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 16