Title |
Fee! Faw!! Fum!!! |
Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
Date |
[1861-1865?] |
Description |
A Union soldier's head is shaped like a bomb, and his mouth is a smoking fuse. He stands next to a cannon. The title references
the fairytale Jack and the beanstalk. The valentine mocks the soldier for his unappealing bad temper.
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Notes |
Text: Who'd marry a man with a head like a bomb, / And a mouth with a smoking fusee? / What woman with him her life would
trust, / For his head might at any moment burst, / And then, where would she be?
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
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Soldiers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Bombs -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Temper -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Jack and the beanstock -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.149.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 3.49 |