Details
Title Twould be a rather serious joke,
Publisher [New York] : N.Y. Union Valentine Co., 134 Wm. St.
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A man ice skates surrounded by a cloud of a smoke from his pipe.
Notes Text: 'Twould be a rather serious joke, / And break the heart so fondly thine, / If all your vows should end in SMOKE, / 'Twere made on ice, my Valentine.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Ice skating -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Pipe smoking -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.569.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 12.18