| Title |
Look Out for the Rope. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A man runs away from a noose. His hat has fallen off. The sender urges the recipient to avoid marriage and compares marriage,
or "Hymen's knot," to death by hanging.
|
| Notes |
Text: Of Hymen's knot you seem afraid, / Because it is so tightly made, / Then run away before you rue it, / For once 'tis
tied you can't undo it.
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Lynching -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.254.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 6.4 |
