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BOBBIN, Timothy.
The Passions, humorously Delineated, by Timothy Bobbin, Esq...containing 25 plates, with his portrait, title page and poetical descriptions
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, 'Human Passions Delineated' was published, 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
- Published
- London: Orme, 1810.
- Plates
- 25
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Orme, 1810.
- Ref
- 718
8vo. Half calf over rubbed and worn boards. Title in gilt to spine, together with three pairs of decorative gilt motifs. Spine rubbed. This book has little poems illustrated with plates for each emotion - love, anger, patience, etc. 25 hand-coloured plates in good condition. A very lovely and unusual work. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. 2. Plate 1. Love. 3. Plate 2. Anger. 4. Plate 3. Credulity. 5. Plate 4. Avarice & Dissipation. 6. Plate 5. Folly. 7. Plate 6. Acute Pain. 8. Plate 7. Laughter & Experiment. 9. Plate 8. Mirth & Anguish. 10. Plate 9. Fellow Feeling. 11. Plate 10. Ugliness. 12. Plate 11. Desire with Hope. 13. Plate 12. Possession & Envy. 14. Plate 13. Weeping & Joy. 15. Plate 14. Drunkenness. 16. Plate 15. Intemperance & Ridicule. 17. Plate 16. Delight. 18. Plate 17. Envy & Deformity. 19. Plate 18. Penitence, Admiration, Desire. 20. Plate 19. Hypocrisy. 21. Plate 20. Poverty & Plenty. 22. Plate 21. Contentment. 23. Plate 22. Grief & Pleasure. 24. Plate 23. Deceit. 25. Plate 24. Jealousy & Revenge. 26. Plate 25. Old Age with Mutual Content.
