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Title The Loathsome Creature.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman with pox marks on her face wears a ball gown. The valentine possibly references sexually transmitted diseases.
Notes Text: The marks of every passion base / You plainly bear upon your face / Distorted, vile in every feature, / Indeed you are a loathsome creature.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Beauty, Personal -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Sexually transmitted diseases -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 5.49