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Title "Maid of Grease" how fat you look.
Publisher [New York] : J. Wrigley, Publisher, 27 Chatham Street.
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman cook stands in front of a stove and holds the lid of a pot. A policeman, or "Bobby," stands behind her and says, "Pretty cookery."
Notes Text: "Maid of Grease" how fat you, / The plainest surely of plain Cook; / To try your charms on me's no use / For you shall never cook any Goose. / Doubtless you may think it nobby / To win the notice of some 'Bobby;' / But value not his Cupboard love, / Who from cook to cook doth rove; / Lose your place and money, you / Will find you've lost your Bobby too.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Women cooks -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Police -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.261.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 6.11