| Title |
The Gossip. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A woman wears a cracked bell as a bonnet, and her tongue is the bell's clapper. The border features matches, a heart-shaped
beet, and cherubs playing tennis and tug o' war. The label on the matchbox reads "Red-headed matches go off easy," and the
beet is marked "D.B." [i.e. "dead beat" or "dead beet"].
|
| Notes |
Text: Oh! you're a bell (without the e) / All tongue, and brass, and clatter, / A ring exchanged with you would be / A very
serious matter. / Dinnerless I would go, for a long spell, / Rather than be rung in by such a bell!
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Gossip -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Oral communication -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.176.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 4.26 |
