| Title |
To a Tinker. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A tinker smokes a pipe and holds tools at his work bench. A kettle and pans are on the floor. "Soft soder" [i.e. solder or
sawder] is slang for manipulative flattery and originates from a cheap, easy, and less-durable form of joining metal.
|
| Notes |
Text: Pipe-smoking, filthy, dirty sot, / Black as the kettle or the pot! / Most noisy slave, most tink'ring brute, / My taste
you surely ne'er will suit. / Ragged wretch! of base-born metal-- / Filthy maker of the kettle; / You can very plainly see--
/ Can't come soft soder over me.
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Tinkers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Pipe smoking -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.544.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 11.43 |
