Title |
To a Bricklayer. |
Publisher |
[New York] : J. Wrigley Publisher, 27 Chatham Street. N.Y. |
Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
Description |
A bricklayer holds a level to a wall of bricks and a trowel in his other hand. "Hod" means a trough used to carry bricks or
coal.
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Notes |
Text: With plummet and rule, here's a bricklaying fool; / A can's his delight, and a trowel's his tool-- / And just as the
plummet consists of hard lead, / Even so are the brains that you have in your head; / Oh Cupid beware, or perchance you grow
sick, / To see such a gulpin pile brick upon brick, / Go man of the hod, I prithee go quick, / Your mould is all crooked,
your mortar won't stick.
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
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Bricklayers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Intellect -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.506.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 11.5 |