Title |
Disappointed Woman. |
Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
Description |
A woman frowns and has a thin, wrinkled face. She wears a gown with a full skirt with furbelows and a very thin waistline.
She sits on a sofa and rest her face on her hand; the object near her face is possibly a handkerchief. The valentine suggests
that the recipient expected matrimony, but was disappointed.
|
Notes |
Text: Counting chickens ere their hatching / You found fatal to your matching; / Disappointed, now you linger, / Scored by
Time's unsparing finger.
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Single women -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.121.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 3.21 |