Plate 23 (Barbers) & Plate 24: Human Passions Delineated
Date1773
After work by
John Collier
(Tim Bobbin) (1708 - 1786)
Engraver
Thomas Sanders
OriginEngland, London
MediumBlack and white line engravings
DimensionsOH: 15" x OW: 10"; plates: H: 5" x W: 8"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1966-191,5
DescriptionUpper print: Upper margin reads: "23"
Lower margin reads: "Publish'd as the act directs June 1773"
Lower print:
Upper margin reads: "24"
Lower margin reads: "Publish'd as the Act/ directs June 1773)
Label TextThis is a page from drawing book by Tom Bobbin (pseudonym for 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," 1773.
In the upper print, a barber trims away on the elaborate macarony head dress of a hump-backed gentleman. The gentleman's nose has what appears to be leeches attached. He is looking in a mirror.
The bottom print shows two women with elaborate macarony head-dresses and costume (note the huge nose-gay stuck in the top front of the one lady) being approached by a macarony gentleman.
InscribedIn blue ink along the left edge: "FOLLY, FASHION PRIDE/ COURAGE"
July 13, 1773
