| Title |
The Exquisite. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A man on ice skates has long mutton chops and holds a walking stick, suggesting that he is a dandy. The valentine encourages
enlistment in the Union army and mocks the recipient's unmanly interest in dress and ice skating.
|
| Notes |
Text: Faint-hearted youth! you talk of skating, / And call the sport quite animating; / You say there's nothing half so bracing;
/ There's naught the manly form so gracing, / As through the icy maze to twine. / But hark! your country's voice is calling,
/ Treason all her hopes is thralling; / 'Tis manlier games men now delight in, / For God and Liberty they're fighting; / From
these I'll seek my Valentine.
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Ice skating -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Dandies -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Masculinity -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.141.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 3.41 |
