Title |
The Taciturn |
Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
Description |
A seated woman has a padlock through her mouth. The valentine suggests that the recipient's quietness will disappear when
she marries. The border shows cupids and hearts; one cupid shoots a heart out of a cannon labeled "Love"; another cupid travels
with a heart in a hot-air balloon; and another thimble cupid hammers at a cracked heart below a heart on a fishhook labeled
"Caught."
|
Notes |
Text: A rare and commendable thing / Is well-affected silence, / Among the maids their wiles who bring / Our dulness to beguile
hence. / Yet Paddock no control assumes, / (Experience teaches this bird), / When Wedlock or the future looms / And "Yes"
has to be whispered.
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
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Women -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Silence -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Marriage -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.483.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 10.32 |