Details
Title Waiting for an Offer.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman wears many flowers in her hair and a skirt with furbelows. She rests her chin in her hand. The valentine cautions the recipient against holding sentimental beliefs about marriage, suggesting that she will not receive marriage proposals because she is neither sensible nor wealthy.
Notes Text: Waiting for an offer, few indeed the chances; / These are not the times we read of in romances; / Men want wives with good sense, or with flowing coffers, / And are very careful to whom they're making offers.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject Single women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Romance literature -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Marriage proposals -- Caricatures and cartoons.
American wit and humor.
Single people.
Queer history.
Has format TMP.objres.586.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 12.35