Human Passions Delineated (Titlepage)

Date1773

Engraver Thomas Sanders

After work by John Collier (Tim Bobbin) (1708 - 1786)

OriginEngland, London

MediumBlack and white line engraving

DimensionsOH: 8" x OW: 12 1/2"; (trimmed to the platemark)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1975-320

DescriptionText reads: "HUMAN PASSIONS/ Delineated/ in above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous:/ Design'd in the Hogarthian Style, very useful for young Practioners in Drawing./ By Timot[obscure]Bobbin Author of the Lancashire Dialect./ N.B. Gentleman &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./ Whose Books, or any single Print/ may be had of the Booksellers,/ or of the Author"
Text in the scrolls (top to bottom): "He's no Crap in his Pocket/ or else" "There are more Theives of the Stuarts than me." "My Crap's all done" "Lancashire Dialect"
Lower margin reads: "T. Sanders Scul./ Tim Bobbin inv. et del./ The Plates in this Book of Heads from N.o 1 to 44 are Publish'd as the Act directs, May 1773."
Label TextThis is the title page for 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.