| Title |
Expectant Damsel. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A woman wears a plaid gown with a low neckline that reveals her breasts. Her crinoline billows up, revealing her petticoat.
She pulls back a yellow blanket, possibly before getting into bed. The text suggests that she is sexually promiscuous.
|
| Notes |
Text: You shall not sigh your hours away, / For you're the gayest of the gay; / You love the concert and the dance, / Life's
pleasures they so much enhance. / Full many a stricken, ardent beau, / Has oft' pronounced that you're not slow, / You do
the warmth of love excite, / And charm me with hope of fond delight.
|
|
Cf. Valentine 5.41. |
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Crinolines -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Premarital sex -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Women -- Conduct of life -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.139.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 3.39 |
