1708-1786
(Timothy Bobbin inv. et del.)
cf.
1773-1850
Engraved & Lithographed
Manchester
DESIRE WITH HOPE
Pl.11
ENVY & DEFORMITY
Pl.17
DECEIT
Pl.23
Treasures
ANGER
FOLLE
INTEMPERANCE & RIDICULE
LOVE
More Fruit
1708-1786
Portrait
c.1770
Printed Title
25 Plates
London
1810
Address
ACUTE PAIN
LAUGHTER & EXPERIMENT
MIRTH ANGUISH
Plate 35
Two Soldiers Argue,
One points to his Sword Hilt
Manchester
1773
Tho_s Sanders Sculpsit
Tho_s Sanders Sculp. 1773
Explanations
1810
Engraved Plate 25
Old Age with Mutual Content
1810
London
Printed Text
Plate XXV
1810
&
FINIS
Hayes Printer
Address
Westminster
FRONTCOVER
Gilt Title
c.1850
Published as the Act directs, May 1773.
Published by John Heywood Sc. Excelsior Works. Manchester
in reverse
c.1850
Thomas Sanders scul.
INSCRIPTION CONTENT
Lettered with title, followed by advertisement:
'NB Gentlemen &c may have any Plate or Plates, Painted on Canvas or Pasteboard
as large as the life, from 5s to 15s a head by sending their orders to the Author, near Rochdale.
Whole books or any single print may be had of the booksellers, or of the author.'
With publication line 'The plates in this Book of Heads from No.1 to 44 are publish'd as the Act directs, May 1773'.
With 'Tim Bobbin inv. et del.' and etched in the plate 'T.Sanders scul.'
Delineated
c.1850
Plate 44
SCOTH POLITICS
To be read backward, like a Witch's Prayer
B-ke, whilst exposing Britain's Ruin sobs ;
Scotch M-n ---Id sleeps, and N-th the Nation robs!
IMPRESSUM
c.1850
TO HIS SUBSCRIBERS,
NON-SUBSCRIBERS, TO ANY BODY, EVERYBODY, OR NO BODY
T. B. SENDS GREETING.
THE
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES
IN THE
Book of Heads,
ENTITLED
HUMAN PASSIONS DELINEATED
THE
PASSIONS, OR DISPOSITIONS OF THE MIND
ARE
EXPRESSED IN THE FOLLOWING NUMBERS
ADMIRATION
ANGER
BOUNTY
BRIBERY
CARELESSNESS
CONTENT
COMPLAISANCE
COURAGE
COVETOUSNESS
DEFORMITY
DESIRE
DISDAIN
DISTRESS
DRUNKENNESS
ENVY
FASHION
FEAR
FOLLY
FURY
GOODNATURE
GRIEF
HATRED
HOPE
HYPOCRISY
~~~~~~~~~~~
IDLENESS
INNOCENCE
LAUGHTER
LOVE
LUST
MISERY
MIRTH
OLD AGE
OPPRESSION
PAIN
PENITENCE
PLEASURE
PLENTY
POSSESSION
POVERTY
PRIDE
SATISFACTION
SCORN
SLEEP
SORROW
SULLENNESS
SURPRISE
WEEPING
~~~~~~~~~
Manchester : John Heywood, 141 and 143 Deansgate
cf.
cf.
cf.
Timothy Bobbin (John Collier 1708-1786), The Passions, Humourously Delineated: containing twenty-five plates, with his portrait, title plate and poetical descriptions (London: Orme, 1810).
British satirist John Collier (1708-1786), using the pseudonym Tim Bobbin, “developed his trade as a painter … producing inn signs, painted panels, and grotesque caricatures which were widely distributed, reaching the American colonies via a Liverpool merchant. He promoted and distributed his own work, travelling all over northern England collecting and delivering orders and commissions for books and pictures and consuming the proceeds as he went.
“…In 1773 was published his Human Passions Delineated, an upmarket edition of his caricatures which acted as a catalogue, in which he described himself as the ‘Lancashire Hogarth’…The 1810 London edition of Human Passions systematically softened his caricatures… The Victorian antiquary W. E. Axon thought his pictures ‘execrable … gross and cruel’, while the Dictionary of National Biography found them ‘grotesque’ and ‘absolutely devoid of artistic merit’.”— DNB
Bond Street print publisher Edward Orme (1775-1848) resurrected Collier’s caricatures in 1810 and reissued the set on 27 leaves with the only title on a printed label pasted to the wrapper (not included with this set).