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Title Hic, -- hic, -- hic, -- drinking is your soul's delight.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman wearing a cloak and bonnet holds at lamppost for support. Her mouth is open and she appears drunk. A sign on the wall behind her says "Gin." The Valentine faults her for her drunkenness.
Notes Text: Hic, -- hic, --hic, --drink is your soul's delight, / And your only Valentine, / Go, you drunken wretch, steep your brain in Alcohol, / You never shall be mine.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Single women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.104.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 15.1