| Title |
Pugnacious Young Lady. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A stern woman wears boxing gloves. "Ruff" means passion or excitment as a well as a collar. The border features matches, a
heart-shaped beet, and cherubs playing tennis and tug o' war. The label on the matchbox reads "Red-headed matches go off easy,"
and the beet is marked "D.B." [i.e. "dead beat" or "dead beet"]. The valentine suggests that the recipient channel her passion
for fighting into romantic passion.
|
| Notes |
Text: Your glove, my enchantress, / I'd rather excuse, / The paw of a panth'ress / 'Twere safer to choose. / There's a fashion
in collars, / As well as in Cuffs, / Round your neck, then, why don't you / Put "one of the Ruff's"?
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Boxing -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Women -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.395.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 8.44 |
