print;
satirical print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1978,U.1037.1
- Title
- Series: Human Passions Delineated
- Description
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Titlepage to Tim Bobbin [pseudonym of John Collier], "Human Passions Delineated, in above 120 figures, droll, satyrical and humourous: design'd in the Hogarthian Style, very useful for young Practitioners in Drawing, by Tim Bobbin Author of the Lancashire Dialect", showing the glum author with overturned punch bowl and flagon of beer being reduced to poverty by the booksellers behind his chair, while his wife sits in drepression by a spinning wheel. 1773
Engraving
- Production date
- 1773
- Dimensions
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Height: 211 millimetres
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Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 330 millimetres (platemark)
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Width: 392 millimetres (sheet)
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- Curator's comments
- The titleplate from a complete (though damaged) copy of the book, which is followed by a portrait of the author, and plates numbered from 1 to 43 (plate 41 is missing); bound in at the end are 6 pages of letterpress, the first addressed 'To his subscribers' and the rest with 'The explanation of the plates in the book of heads entitled Human Passions Delineated' which are written in doggerel verse. These cover only plates 1 to 38, plates 39 to 43 being full-page satires that seem to have been first separately published. This copy has been drawn on in graphite by an early owner who signs himself George Lindsay, 1804. It forms part of the Eliza Cruikshank bequest of 1890, but was only registered in 1978.
For the book see Diana Donald & Brian Maidment, 'Human Passions Delineated: an exploration of the work of Tim Bobbin', Hanborough Parrot 1990. The letterpress at the back refers to each plate, and the interpretations of the plates in the descriptions given here are derived from that.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,U.1037.1
