Title |
Boarding-House Keeper. |
Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
Description |
The large-nosed boarding-house keeper is very thin. She holds a thin rooster by the neck in one hand and a knife in the other;
"Age 65" is written on its body. A speech bubble by her face reads "You'l do/ Old BUZZARD." A butter dish with legs and insects
appear in the top left corner. The border features a woman embracing a man; the pair resembled Commedia dell'arte characters.
At the bottom is a pack of matches marked "Lucifer's matches."
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Notes |
Text: Old mother Skinflint, I know you well, / Your species is common, and mean at that; / You think yourself able to "keep
an hotel," / Which in you're too stingy to keep a cat. / Your boarders look yellow and skinny and thin, / Just like the old
rooster you feed them on-- / Why don't you hang out, from your sorry inn, / The sign of the "Living Skeleton?"
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
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Boardinghouses -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Landladies -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Household pests -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Women -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Avarice -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.48.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 1.48 |