No. 69 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049)

A caricature drawing of two men, the dandified one in the hat apparently of higher social status than the other with his tongue partly out to the side of his mouth. They may well be copies of, or at least based on, the popular and widely reproduced series of 'Human Passions Delineated' of 1773, by the Lancashire-born comic draughtsman and writer John Collier (alias 'Tim Bobbin', 1708-86). Collier's main route for disseminating them was through taverns, which may be where Bray saw examples.

It is one of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1744-1819) – later a well-known admiral - on two voyages (1774-77) to report on British interests in West Africa, including the slave trade. The dated drawings refer only to the first of these, from December 1774 to September 1775, though a few may be from the second. Others comprise country views, some of Deal, Kent (where Bray may have come from), and others of social-history interest.