Details
Title Do you think, you ugly man.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description The valentine depicts a man with a dog's head. He wears boxing gloves labeled "insant death" and "six months illness.". He also wears a monocle and a top hat, which suggest that he is a "puppy," or dandy. The border features matches, a heart-shaped beet, and cherubs playing tennis and tug o' war. The label on the matchbox reads "Red-headed matches go off easy," and the beet is marked "D.B." [i.e. "dead beat" or "dead beet"].
Notes Text: Do you think you ugly man, / Because you're like a black-and-tan, / And a hitter from the shoulder-joint likewise, / That on you the blooming girls, / With their fascinating curls, / Will glance with approbation in their eyes / If you do you're much mistaken, / For it's just as sure as bacon / No fighter can a woman's true love win, / But the soldier-boy whose blows / Fall on his country's foes / When the ring is pitched, the battle-field within.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Boxers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Dandies -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Masculinity -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Beauty, Personal -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 3.22