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.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 8.14