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Title The Almighty Dollar Worshipper.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description The dollar worshipper kneels before a woman who has large sacks of money by her feet. The worshipper has a serpentine body with a curved spine and a hooked nose that suggests that he is Jewish. The large mirror and the curtained windows in the room suggest that the woman is wealthy. Because of the proximity of the woman to the money, it is not clear whom or what he worships.
Notes Text: Ha, ha, 'tis thus on bended knee, / You press your vows of adoration,/ But virtue's not your honest plea,/ Nor yet a life of pure devotion,/ For naught but the almighty dollar,/ Could make you wear the marriage collar.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Avarice -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Jews -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.13.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 1.13