Details
Title Elephant on Skates.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description The valentine shows an elephant ice skating (and smoking). He wears a blue jacket and green pants and carries a walking stick. The sender rejects the recipient because of his weight.
Notes Text: I've heard fat men singing, / I'm told of their swimming, / I've seen them in various states -- / I've known of their dancing, / And ogling and glancing, / But ne'er have I seen one on skates. / I always am laughing, / When fat men I'm chaffing, / Who think that it will be my fate -- / It sets me tee-heeing, / A Valentine being, / To an elephant trying to skate.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Ice skating -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Overweight men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.134.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 3.34