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Title Hoops and Leader of the Fashion.
Publisher [New York] : J. Wrigley Publisher, 27 Chatham Street, N.Y.
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman hikes up her skirt, revealing her crinoline and petticoats. "Ducky" is a term of endearment, and "kiver" is a dialect for "cover." "Timbers" refers to her legs and suggests that they are indelicately large. The sender mocks the recipient for her careless immodesty.
Notes Text: Hey ducky dumpling, gazing high, / Parading in your t'others, / We look less high, and there we spy, / 'Till laughing almost smothers. / However cold may be your liver, / Such timbers, ducky, ne'er can shiver. / Especially with, such hoops to kiver.
Cf. 4.50.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Crinolines -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Overweight women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Exhibitionism -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.204.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 5.4