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Collier (John, "Tim Bobbins", 1708-1786) They who have ears to hear, let them hear, pen and black ink, brown ink, monochrome wash, ruled ink border, numbered '25' lower left, on laid paper without visible watermark, sheet 230 x 365 mm (9 x 14 3/8 in), mounted on conservation tissue support, old folds with repaired splitting, small nicks and tears repaired, mainly marginal, surface dirt and browning, mounted with pen and brown ink verse below, possibly by a different hand, under glass, framed, [circa 1773] Illustrated: Plate 43, Tim Bobbin's [pseudonym of John Collier] "Human Passions Delineated", 1773 Exhibited: Tim Bobbin, Manchester, 1980, no. 6 Provenance: Collection of Keith Mackenzie, London Then by descent to the present owner ⁂ Very rare example of a preliminary study for a caricature print by the "Lancashire Hogarth"; we have been unable to trace another having been offered at auction. The present drawing served as the design, with some variation, for the caricature print included in Collier's book of 120 caricatures with accompanying verses, 'The Human Passions Delineated', which was published in 1773.