Title |
To a Tailor. |
Publisher |
[New York] : J. Wrigley, Publisher, 27 Chatham Street N.Y. |
Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
Description |
A tailor with a cabbage on his back rides on a goose holding a pair of shears. "Goose" means a tailors iron, and "cabbage"
refers to the fabric leftover from making a garment. Cabbage belonged to the customer, but the valentine accuses the tailor
of stealing it.
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Notes |
Text: Tailor behold the future ride / That will you one day betide / Upon a Goose you mounted are / Yourself the GREATEST
Goose by far; / Slung around your neck is seen / The CABBAGE pilfered from the GREENS, / In your hand a pair of shears / To
cut Imp's tails when they appear.
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
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Tailors -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Theft -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.541.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 11.40 |