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Title The Sail or Awning Maker.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A man stands stitching a large piece of cloth. The valentine uses "tailor" as a derogatory term, suggesting that the recipient fails at making himself more attractive by boasting of his connection with sailing.
Notes Text: Soon as the early day is dawning, / There you are stitching some old awing [i.e., awning]-- / 'Tis true, you work for the bold sailor, / But you are every inch a tailor! -- / Expect not ever then to be, / More than you are, just now to me.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Sails -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Awnings -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Sailors -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Tailors -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.421.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 9.20