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 |