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The One That Wears the Breeches.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A6021
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Details
Title
The One That Wears the Breeches.
Publisher
[S.l. : s.n.]
Date
[between 1840 and 1880?]
Description
A woman wears a crinoline structure, bonnet, and fur cap and muff. "Bombazine" was a fabric used for mourning clothing. The border shows cupids and hearts; one cupid shoots a heart out of a thimble cannon labeled "Love"; another cupid travels with a heart in a hot-air balloon; and another cupid hammers at a cracked heart below a heart on a fishhook labeled "Caught."
Notes
Text: Oh! it's well they become you, ma'am, / And it's well they become, ma'am; / You know what I mean, / (It isn't the crinoline, ) / Are they made of bombazine? -- / It's well they become you, ma'am!
Genre
Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject
Masculinity -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Clothing and dress -- Caricatures and cartoons.
American wit and humor.
Gender roles.
Gender transgression.
Queer history.
Has format
TMP.objres.365.jpg
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier
Comic Valentines, 8.14
In Collections
Comic Valentine Collection
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