Details
Title A Two Faced Woman.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman has two faces, both with pox marks. One side smiles and extends a hand, and one frowns and extends a fist. The valentine possibly refers to promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases.
Notes Text: Avaunt! foul tempress! though you show'd a face / As fair as heart of man had ever charmed, / I see another on the other side, / Deceit has wrinkled, passion has deformed.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Sexually transmitted diseases -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Promiscuity -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 12.16